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TravisBy
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 Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:37 pm Post subject: Old laptop, using a WG511 wifi card |
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I pulled out my old laptop, and I figured it'd make a GREAT Gentoo machine.
I can get everything else working on it fine, except I am not very good with wireless cards. This has worked under Ubuntu 7.04 at one time [and I really do hate it, I just didn't know how to recompile a kernel at that time =/], I do not know the kernel version of it as a fdisk'd that a long time ago. What would be the best kernel version to try to get this card to work? I'd rather use the newest kernel that supports it. I know in 2.6.21.* the kernel went haywire with wireless drivers, but I don't use one so I don't know how it is in 2.6.23*, and if it'd bother supporting such an old card.
| lspci | tail wrote: | | 03:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01) |
Thanks in advance for the help ^_^ |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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the latest kernel?
The driver for your card is found in the prism54 driver (AFAIK), which is in portage. Or, try ndiswrapper if all else fails.
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The most recent.  What's the specs on the laptop?
Also, if it's a CardBus card, you have to emerge pcmcia, pcmciautils, and prism54. |
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TravisBy
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It's in 2.6.23.*? I'm sorry, I didn't think it was. Sorry for asking such a stupid question =/
| Quote: | | The most recent. What's the specs on the laptop? |
It's a Compaq Evo n610c. a pentimum-m 2GHZ with 768MB of RAM. Using an Intel 82845 chipset.
It's old, but it's better than my other laptop.
And thanks for the help, I'll get it running soon ^_^ |
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poly_poly-man
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| TravisBy wrote: | It's in 2.6.23.*? I'm sorry, I didn't think it was. Sorry for asking such a stupid question =/
| Quote: | | The most recent. What's the specs on the laptop? |
It's a Compaq Evo n610c. a pentimum-m 2GHZ with 768MB of RAM. Using an Intel 82845 chipset.
It's old, but it's better than my other laptop.
And thanks for the help, I'll get it running soon ^_^ |
The driver is not (AFAIK) in the kernel (yet, or at all). Just use the latest kernel and emerg prism54 for the wireless driver.
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Simba7
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| TravisBy wrote: | | It's a Compaq Evo n610c. a pentimum-m 2GHZ with 768MB of RAM. Using an Intel 82845 chipset. |
*grin* Define "old". I've got Gentoo on an old Digital P166MMX laptop with 80MB of RAM. Runs decent, actually. |
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| Simba7 wrote: | | TravisBy wrote: | | It's a Compaq Evo n610c. a pentimum-m 2GHZ with 768MB of RAM. Using an Intel 82845 chipset. |
*grin* Define "old". I've got Gentoo on an old Digital P166MMX laptop with 80MB of RAM. Runs decent, actually. |
I've got RedHat (3.0.3) on a 486...
That laptop isn't too old - I wouldn't mind having it
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| poly_poly-man wrote: | | I've got RedHat (3.0.3) on a 486... |
I'm looking into sticking Gentoo on an old 486DX2/66 w/64MB of RAM, but doing a stage1 build from it would take months. |
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I would DEFINITELY reccomend against gentoo on that old a box - unless you do serious distcc (and/or build it on a different box altogether).
I has slackware on there for a while... it was nice, but I wanted to go for the nostalgia 
Downsides to that old a redhat: No dhcp, no ssh, can't build new software.
Upsides: X, Mosaic/Arena, xboing, flying, xlander, etc.
If you want the redhat iso, I can send it to you, then I can email you instructions (if you'd like)
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