Thank you very much for you advise duckz. I already tryied gentoo forums.
I also emerged the gentoo-sources and and used genkernel as Michael
suggested, I like very much how the Portage system works.
I discovered than Windows XP realize than tar.bz2 is a compressed
file, so it changes the extension to tar.tar, and is almost impossible
to decompress it. Ethernet just works for a few seconds in Sabayon
(at least in my laptop), so, I had to use an Ubuntu's LiveCD in my
wife's laptop so I could download the files with their original
extension. That was hard, because every time I tryied to emerge
something (wadwifi for example), Sabayon tryied to connect to download
a different file needed to emerge the program, each file I downloaded,
copyied to /usr/portage/distfiles (there were about 15 files), and I
was jumping between computers to do that. Finally, it didn't work
because, in order to make Sabayon to work in that laptop, in booting
options I had to add the commands "acpi=off doamp", and madwifi need
acpi enabled to work. The other issue is than Acer laptops need an
additional driver to work, to make its components "appear" in the
system, that driver is "acer_acpi"...the same steps to emerge it,
running between computers, and sadly, acer_acpi also needs acpi
enabled. I installed Ubuntu i386 in this laptop and Ethernet works.
But wireless don't work yet. Personally, I liked much more Sabayon.
> >
>
> if its gentoo then you should try gentoo forum first.
>
> anyway if the main problem is emerging madwifi-ng:
>
> 1. can you use ethernet cable to connect to internet and download
> them in linux using wget?.
> 2. try to rename the blah.tar.tar to blah.tar.bz2 then test
> extracting them. if failed, extract the original blah.tar.tar, then
> repack them in tar then compressed them using bzip2. Once you got
> good compressed tar.bz2 I think you need to move them
> to /usr/portage/distfiles (or whatever link that sebayon / you
> instructs in /etc/make.conf). then you need to issue the emerge
> command again.
>
> 3. if there is madwifi ebuild available, you dont need to rebuild the
> kernel. the ebuild will make the module for you.
>
>
> hope this is helpful
> duckz
>
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