OK that distro is a bit too small.

currentresident · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2010 Posts: 1

I installed http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-iso/ minimal on my laptop it works except the wirelesss. The wired connection may work but I don't have access to one. The minimal distro should include wireless as standard.

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21706

The minimal ISOs are not meant to be installed. They are meant to be burned to a CD so that you can boot into a minimal environment from which to install Gentoo. Some wireless cards only work well with non-free drivers, or do not work well ever. You would be better served finding a less minimal live environment from which to install Gentoo. Any recent Linux environment can be made to work, though some are a better choice than others.

d2_racing · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:05 pm Post subject:

Indeed, minimal CD are not distro, they are media that help us to install our box.

It's not like a Ubuntu LiveCD

chithanh · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:30 pm Post subject:

The minimal iso comes with wpa_supplicant and indeed wireless works using Gentoo net scripts. However some firmware packages are not on the minimal cd.

skellr

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:54 am Post subject:

What kind of machine/wireless adapter are we discussing? Please post the results of lspci -n.

Cheers,
Pappy
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