installing gentoo...agian

[nooby god]

Hey I want to install gentoo, I've tried before but I couldn't get my internet working. Do a search on the forums to see.
I'm willing to try agian. I'm know the install process well, but after that I need help. Before I install I need some one to explain to me in great detail (treat me like a major n00b) on how to get internet access.

I'm connected to the internet via router. I connect to my router by a linksys WUSB11 v3.0 USB network adapter. This has the prism2 chipset. according to the linux HCL http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=2230&sort=8&cat=144&page=2 I need the linux-wlan-ng drivers, version 0.2.1-pre22 or higher in order to work, but I don't get on how to do it. I'm going to do a stage 3 install and then get my internet acess and then recompile everything.

Please help, and thank you

[Shazam]

well, i would suggest, that you setup your gentoo in stage 3 first, after you got everything running, except the network card, you can go ahead, download the driver under windows (i assume you have a copy on your computer, otherwise download it from a friend, and put it on usb stick, crd, whatever you feel like), copy it of to a tmp dir, where you can compile and install it. hard to list you all the steps from here, but what i suggest, read the gentoo handbook first (maybe print it out, so you can look up for help, when trying to install[ that's how i started, too])

[penguinlnx]

If you have a netword card installed, you have to turn OFF PlugNPlay in your BIOS for Linux to find the card and connect.

[marcus0263]

I'm getting extremely frustrated at this point. I've tried multipule configurations in the make.conf and I'm not having any luck. I'm trying to bootstrap this shuttle box with an AMD XP 3000+ Barton w/ 1G of ECC Ram and it keeps bombing. I'm getting segmentation faults etc.. when I try to compile, here's what I'm getting:

../ncurses/tinfo/lib_tparm.c:476: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <URL:https://bugs.gentoo.org/> for instructions.
cd ../objects; gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../ncurses -I. -I. -I../include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC -c ../ncurses/./tinfo/lib_ttyflags.c
cd ../objects; gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../ncurses -I. -I. -I../include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC -c ../ncurses/./tty/lib_twait.c
cd ../objects; gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../ncurses -I. -I. -I../include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC -c ../ncurses/./tinfo/name_match.c
The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
make[1]: *** [../objects/lib_tparm.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r5/work/ncurses-5.4/ncurses'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r5 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 74, Exitcode 2
!!! make failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.


Here's my make.conf

CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
ALSA_CARDS="via82xx"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp
DISTDIR=${PORTDIR}/distfiles
PKGDIR=${PORTDIR}/packages
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
RSYNC_RETRIES="3"
RSYNC_TIMEOUT=180
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
CCACHE_SIZE="2G"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext aac aalib acpi aim alsa apm arts avi bcmath bzlib cdb cdparanoia cdr cups dvd dvdr foomaticdb gif gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 jce jpeg mmx mmxext mpeg ncurses npg nptl nvidia oss pam pdflib -pcmcia procmail qt quicktime sockets spell sse svga tcltk tiff truetype usb userlocales vcd X X509 xvid zlib"

Here's my hardware:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3205
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)
0000:00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3227
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2)


Any suggestions?

[kimchi_sg]

[marcus0263]

[kimchi_sg]

[nooby god]

[kimchi_sg]

[nooby god]

ok then, I have one last question then. Last time I had alot of trouble getting gnome to work. It wouldn't start up automaticly, when I configured it and, when I typed startx, I gotgot this weird screen, that had four shell windows and a clock. I fixed it by loggin on to root and typing startx. I got to the gnome login, screen there. There I logged in as a normal user. Can some one fix it, so the login screen starts up automaticly?

[kimchi_sg]