Wireless install not possible for me?

sephknows · n00b Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 10

Hello. I read some of these threads and have concluded that most likely, wireless installation is not possible for me. To make sure, I will give a few specs for my comp and ask if anyone here can verify this to be not possible. Thanks in advance!

Intel Pentium 3
696 MHz, 512 MB of RAM

This is a laptop btw so I do not know the internal specs besides that. Here is my wireless card specs:

802.11b WiFi
"MN-520" but I think this only applies to Windows?

I attempted many times to get the eth0 or eth1 working through net-setup and i have not succeeded. I even wrote down all the info for my SSID and etc. It just fails to recognize my wireless network through ifconfig and iwconfig.

jsfan · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 1:52 pm Post subject:

iwconfig and ifconfig will not show your card until you have loaded a driver for your card. I assume that your card is a Microsoft MN-520.
Usually if you have problems with hardware, you should run

sephknows · n00b Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 10

Well I tried the modprobe code you gave me, and absolutely nothing happened. No next was output, just the cursor moved to the next line as usual.

I used the other code but there were 5 or 6 very long and scary paragraphical data structures and I would rather copy specific information than the entire output. So is there anything in that output I should look for specifically to copy to this forum? Or should I *shudder* copy all of it?

nixnut · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:04 pm Post subject:

sephknows · n00b Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 10

That is what I assumed, that it meant it successfully loaded. However after loading it, I was unable to properly set up the network still. Is there a step after the modprobe I am missing?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:22 pm Post subject:

sephknows,

If the modprobe worked, ifconfig -a should show your new interface.
That means you have it - its not yet operational

You need to do

sephknows · n00b Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 10

I have done the modprobe, and then followed it up with the "ifconfig -a" command. This returns only "lo" just as "ifconfig" would by itself. Again, there are still no networks available. Then I attempted "ifconfig wlan0 up" and it returned the same error as "ifconfig eth0" and "ifconfig eth1" had before: "No such device."

Any more ideas?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:54 pm Post subject:

sephknows,

The module loaded but it appears its not the right module for your wireless card or the interface whould have been listed in

sephknows · n00b Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 10

It might be useful in helping me for you to know that when installing Ubuntu, I was able to connect to the internet when I enabled eth0 in the network property thingoh. Perhaps I could boot into Ubuntu and get some more useful information for you all? If so, let me know what to look for and I'll post it within Ubuntu to you all =)

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject:

sephknows,

You can boot into any liveCD and install Gentoo. The Gentoo instide your install comes from the stage 3 tarball, not the CD when you do a network install. The name of your ethernet device is not important as long as you know it and use it in commands. I was using wlan0 as a place holder but you only had lo.

There are some additional install steps over and above the normal handbook if you use another liveCD. The Knoppix steps should apply to Ubuntu too.
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jsfan · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:36 pm Post subject: