Well, after seeing your message, I think you should get the wired ethernet to
work first, most wired internet driver is included in linux kernel.
as for the acpi problem, usually after you got a working kernel, you will need
to emerge acer-acpi. then emerge the wireless driver.
anyway, since you got ubuntu to get your wired working, do lspci and lsmod, get
the result and takes note which kernel module should be loaded. then get the
/proc/config.gz by zcat /proc/config.gz >> .config
and try to build the gentoo-sources with the same options as ubuntu.
Personally, I dont know how to use genkernel, usually i just go to
/usr/src/linux
then make menuconfig, then make all then make modules_install then make
install. then edit the /boot/grub.conf to point to the new vmlinuz.
i think you can also move the result of ubuntu zcat ...... to sebayon
/usr/src/linux and try to make it if the kernel version is the same.
well good luck with sabayon... gentoo is a bitch to learn but once you master
it you will KNOW what makes linux tick.
regards,
duckz
dr_ovalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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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