Wireless network that wont turn on

[YangYin]

Okay here is the situation i have... i have an Emachines laptop that has a buit in wireless internet.. that doesnt seem to be activated because usually theres a glowing light on the (WIRELESS icon near my keyboard) WIRED INTERNET WORKS FINE(just in case theres a util i could emerge)

Okay here is the problem i have... when i had windows the wireless icon near my keyboard lit up and my wireless worked. Now that i installed gentoo the light isnt on and i have fiddled with the options in the ROOT /usr/src/linux make menuconfig none of them look familiar to my VIA broadcom wireless internet and when i do ifconfig i get

eth0(wired internet)
lo(?? i have no clue what this is it says its loop something)

any suggestions would be great and if i have made a double post of someone else could you point me to their post so we could get together on this problem

as for me im tired and going to sleep... got gentoo to work tho, now to just get FluxBox to install and ill be set

[nitbix]

Your chip is most surely a broadcom bcm43xx, that can be found in:

Device Drivers --->
Network device support --->
Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) --->
[*] Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions
[M] Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support
[*] Broadcom BCM43xx debugging (RECOMMENDED)

add the module to modules.autoload.d then emerge fwcutter-bcm43xx, download the firmare, cut it and you're up

You can find a complete howto at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-409194.html
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[YangYin]

the damn thing wont let me emerge fwcutter? it says that all e-builds that could satisfy bcm43xx-fwcutter have been masked.

then it says
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete you request:
- net-wireless/bcm43xx-fwcutter-004 (masked by: `amd64 keyword)

[nitbix]

This will fix it.

[kinkozmasta]

Hi,

I just wiped out my laptop and did a fresh install and now I can't seem to access my wireless access point. I have a cisco aironet card that comes built in with my t40 thinkpad and a D-Link router/ap... I have the aironet driver compiled into the kernel. I did not have any trouble before the fresh install but it had been many months since I had updated anything. What happens now is that it always tries to associate one particular access point (don't know who's it is and it is not in my preferred_aps list) regardless of setting associate_order_eth1="forcepreferredonly".

If I try to configure it manually using "iwconfig essid" and "iwconfig key" I still cannot connect and the mysterious access point is always shown when I type iwconfig eth1...

Any ideas?

EDIT: I meant to post this as a top level post but accidently posted it as a reply.