[Partially Solved]Wireless installation - ZyXEL ZyAIR G302

skarphace · n00b Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 40

I feel very new to this. I have installed a bunch of wireless cards on other distros but on gentoo, with this new card, I'm stumped.

I have a ZyXEL ZyAIR G302 which I'm trying to install. This installation is after the main gentoo install. I just moved and am forced to have this computer wireless. I've looked around to find the chipset that this card uses to no avail.

Is there a way to find out what chipset it uses, with some sort of software probe? Also, is there a guide to install wireless cards? The gentoo-wiki one is specifically for installation with gentoo, not after the fact(i.e. I can't use net-setup without chrooting from the live cd). If I have to chroot, then so be it, I would just rather not.

Thanks.

widan · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 11:15 pm Post subject:

What does "lspci" tell you about the card ?

col · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 11:26 pm Post subject:

An Easy (if you dont have the card installed or are thinking of buy one for linux ) is to download the windows driver file & inspect the .inf file. This will have chipset identifiers in it the text.

skarphace · n00b Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 40

Thank you both very much. lspci was exactly what I needed. It's an ACX111 for future reference.

Ok, when I try and emerge the acx100 driverset, it's masked with the "~x86 keyword". I checked the man file and it says I should update /etc/portage/package.key-words to allow certain packages for this. That file does not currently exist on my machine, could someone provide me with the syntax? Or would I do better just manually installing this package?

Thanks again.

skarphace · n00b Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 40

I just went an downloaded the source and compiled it. Placed the drivers into the proper directory with 'make install' but now I'm stuck and the docs are so-so. How do I get this device configured and started?