On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, maxim wexler <bliss...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > ifconfig wlan0 up > > > > > > iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan. > > > > > > iwconfig wlan0 essid "Network Name" > > > > > > iwconfig wlan0 chan 1 > > > > > > > dhcpcd wlan0 should sort this. > > > > It did, thanks Neil! Now, can you point a way forword? My eeepc is strictly > bare bones, for now, no X, haven't even written make.conf yet. > > There's some interesting stuff re: gentoo on eeepc on the eee forum but > it's rather dated. Can you suggest some sort of wiki or? > Hi Maixm- I have just (first full boot with X this morning, actually) gotten my wife's eeePC 900A switched over to Gentoo. I have a full install with kernel 2.6.29, X (1.6.1), Intel drivers (with DRI2, enabling *very* smooth and fast compositing), full KDE 4.2.3, WiFi and Wired ethernet, Firefox, Openoffice, NetworkManager, and all the usuals, all in a 2.7GB disk footprint, and without doing any compiling on the eeePC itself (I used my Core2Duo ~amd64 Gentoo box to do all the heavy lifting, then made a bootable 4GB SD card with the resulting FS - will move over to internal 4GB SSD once I've put the final touches on it). I have full eeePC hotkey support (except for an issue I've found with the rfkill (Wifi radio on/off) functionality - the HW (PHY) refuses to power back up once it's turned off. I believe it was working in the original Xandros, so I'll probably be doing some kernel hacking to get it working). If you would like, I can take some time this weekend and write up how I went about doing it and post it - interested? -James
