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xsilentmurmurx
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 Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 12:12 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Need help installing Gentoo over a wireless network |
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Hey there everyone
So here is the deal. I have an Acer Aspire One D257-13473 Netbook with 2 Gigs of RAM and an Intel Atom processor. I am trying to install Gentoo on it using the minimal install ISO file that was provided on the Gentoo website. As far as I can tell this laptop has an Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter. Ive been trying to connect to wireless as soon as I book into the install media but when I tried to run ifconfig , the wireless adapter does not show up in the list of adapters on my netbook. Also when I attempted to run iwconfig I got the following
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lo no wireless extensions.
enp1s0 no wireless extensions
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I attempted to do an modprobe ath9k (which is usually the kernel module for the type of wireless adapter that I have) and I got the following
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modprobe ath9k
modprobe: FATAL: Module ath9k not found.
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In fact I dont even know what the name has been assigned to the wireless adapter! I know enp1s0 has been assigned to my ethernet adapter.
I am totally lost and I dont know how to resolve this. I would rather use the gentoo provided install media than sysrescuecd for this project...Its just something im messing around with to learn.
Any suggestions or tips on how I should proceed? I greatly appreciate it!!
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xsilentmurmurx
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John R. Graham
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It's really okay to use the SystemRescueCD. It's Gentoo-based and had much better wireless support than the official install media. Furthermore, absolutely nothing from the install media makes it into the installed Gentoo.
I use it by preference myself.
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xsilentmurmurx
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| John R. Graham wrote: | It's really okay to use the SystemRescueCD. It's Gentoo-based and had much better wireless support than the official install media. Furthermore, absolutely nothing from the install media makes it into the installed Gentoo.
I use it by preference myself.
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sysrescuecd is great , this is true, my only problem with it is that the graphical user interface causes package emerging to run much slower than the install media which is just command line.
I guess its just a preference issue... Ill just use sysrescuecd I guess. |
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John R. Graham
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So use SystemRescueCD at the command line. Radical, I know, but perhaps worth considering. 
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xsilentmurmurx
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| John R. Graham wrote: | So use SystemRescueCD at the command line. Radical, I know, but perhaps worth considering.
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I used to be able to get wireless to work at the command line with SysrescueCD but it seems like I can only do that through the GUI... Maybe I am missing something? |
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broken_chaos
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| xsilentmurmurx wrote: | | Maybe I am missing something? |
It runs NetworkManager by default. You can either disable that (stop it via the script in /etc/init.d on the livecd) and then use the standard wpa_supplicant/iwconfig/etc. to connect, or leave NetworkManager running and use nmcli to connect on the command line (`nmcli dev wifi connect "your-ssid" password "your-password"`). |
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xsilentmurmurx
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| broken_chaos wrote: | | xsilentmurmurx wrote: | | Maybe I am missing something? |
It runs NetworkManager by default. You can either disable that (stop it via the script in /etc/init.d on the livecd) and then use the standard wpa_supplicant/iwconfig/etc. to connect, or leave NetworkManager running and use nmcli to connect on the command line (`nmcli dev wifi connect "your-ssid" password "your-password"`). |
Woohoo! that worked! You guys are awesome!
Thanks! |
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