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kinghunter4
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 Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject: iwconfig probs |
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Hi,
I've just installed gentoo, and to my pleasant surprise, my wifi card driver was in portage! (rt61)
So, I go and install that along with wireless-tools, and do the following
| Code: | modprobe rt61
ifconfig ra0 up
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However, it says that the rt61 driver was compiled with v22 of wireless extensions, while iwconfig
was compiled with v20. So I go and grab wireless-tools v28, compile it, and get the same error!
How do i fix this? |
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didymos
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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Unmask on of the 29_pre* versions. They're written to use the newer wireless extensions.
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kinghunter4
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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Unfortunately, my only way of getting anything is using wifi in windows and then getting them
from the windows partition from gentoo. Is there some non-emerge analog to that? |
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didymos
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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Download the file the ebuild would normally fetch (check the ebuild for the exact name). The filename is what matters, not the mirror crap. Then in Windows, pick a Gentoo mirror from here:
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml
get that file, go into Gentoo, copy it to /usr/portage/distfiles/, unmask wireless-tools and emerge it. Portage will find the file you copied and build it. I'd just go with the newest version.
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