Whoops, My fault. Replace wireless-tools with wpa_supplicant. That is the package i had problems with. The no-gentoo way was that one which made less trouble. If there are some USE flags which tell wpa_supplicant to neeed madwifi - which?
ebuild fetch told me it's installing 1of 1 package and download wpa_supplicant AND madwifi. BTW: wpa_supplicant is about 400k ... (totally unneeded) madwifi near 2M Regards Frank -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi success story :| On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:12 +0100, Schafer Frank wrote: > Hi all, > > I can't nderstand why things working on LFS, Redhat 7, Aurox, > Mandrake, Slackware and Debian don't work on Gentoo. > > I have (had) a working WiFi net at home. The machine I "upgraded" from > Aurox to Gentoo wasn't a participant in this net some time. > > I need a driver - of course. The WiFi card is an Intel ProWireless 2200. > I've choosen the Linux driver for this card. It worked on LFS, Slack > and Aurox. O.K. I've built it for Gentoo too (without emerge - of course ;). > The firmware of the card is uploaded using hotplug. So ... ``emerge > hotplug'' ... and the driver stops working. O.K., I've solved this. > > # rc-update del hotplug boot > # emerge --unmerge hotplug > # bunzip2 hotplug.tar.bz2 > # tar -xf hotplug.tar > # cd hotplug > # make > # make install > > ``modprobe'' now shows, that everything works like a charm (and there > isn't even a service started). > > Now I need wireless-tools. This is masked. no it is not > I don't have a clue why. I > have a working installation on LFS and (had) a working installation > on Aurox. I tried to install the Gentoo package using ebuild. The > fetch told me, that the Gentoo people force everybody who needs > wireless-tools to download and install madwifi. no they do not. [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ esearch wireless-t [ Results for search key : wireless-t ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-wireless/wireless-tools Latest version available: 27 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 183 kB Homepage: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html Description: A collection of tools to configure wireless lan cards. License: GPL-2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ emerge -pf wireless-tools Calculating dependencies ...done! ftp://linux.jetstreamgames.co.nz/dist/gentoo/distfiles/wireless_tools.27 .tar.gzhttp://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/wireless_too ls.27.tar.gz I don't know what drugs you or your computer have been using! perhaps some USE flag speedball. > WHY?? None of my wireless-tools > installations is dependent on this (Intel ProWireless 2200, Edimax, > Prism2.5 none of this cards need madwifi). > > O.K. this is solved too. > > # emerge --unmerge wireless-tools > # emerge --unmerge madwifi > # bunzip wireless-tools.tar.bz2 > # tar -xf wireless-tools.tar > # cd wireless-tools > # make > # make install > > Now I have a further working installation again. > > ... so the machine is in the net again :) I'd smile even more if I had > achieved this in a more Gentoo way. :| > > Well, now when I've convinced the machine running Gentoo to co-work in > the net, I've a further question. > > What will I have to do to change from simpleinit to sysv init? Would > it be sufficiennt to emerge sysv? Will I have to unmerge simpleinit? > I'd like to have my initscripts #!/bin/sh. > > Regards and thanks in advance > Frank > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
