I've tried to run through the instructions at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rtl8187.
The kernel is configured per that guide, and I get the message: usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187 When I try to run ifconfig wlan0 up, however, I get: wlan0: unknown interface: no such device I get the same result if I run ifconfig wlan up (net.wlan is the symlink that I set up in /etc/init.d) The wireless section of my /etc/conf.d/net file reads mode_wlan="managed" wpa_supplicant_wlan="-Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant_RTL8187.conf" config_wlan=( "dhcp" ) dhcp_wlan="-R -G" wpa_supplicant has been emerged. Jeff On Sunday 16 December 2007 12:14:42 pm Mick wrote: > On Sunday 16 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > All I get for iwconfig is > > lo no wireless extensions > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > This means that the driver has not been loaded yet. In generic terms > you'll need to install the necessary driver for your WiFi device (either > the new one in the kernel or emerge net-wireless/rtl8187, or ndiswrapper > and the MS Windows driver). If you build the driver as a module then you > need to modprobe -v rtl8187, while you keep an eye on the logs to see how > things go (tail -f /var/log/messages). You have seen this, right? > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rtl8187 > > > I think I need some more info in /etc/conf.d/net, and need somehow to > > create the necessary /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 or whatever driver. > > > > The only 'net.anything' drivers present at the moment are net.lo and > > net.eth0 > > You will of course have to manually create a symlink between net.wlan0 -> > net.lo (or whatever your new WiFi device is recognised as by the kernel) so > that you can bring it up by running /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start. But this > is only necessary for autoloading the driver through the runlevel scripts. > To try it out follow the instructions in the Wiki page above. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
