All I get for iwconfig is lo no wireless extensions eth0 no wireless extensions.
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 Jeff On Sunday 16 December 2007 05:50:49 am Florian Philipp wrote: > On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 23:19 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 December 2007 09:48:10 am Mick wrote: > > > On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > > > I believe that I have this enabled, however ieee80211 is still > > > > barfing out by asking for CONFIG_NET_RADIO. > > > > > > > > I'll check and confirm this tonight. > > > > > > Also check bugzilla. I remember reporting a bug with the more recent > > > kernels failing to build kernel drivers. The last kernel that I > > > managed to build rt2570 was 2.6.20-gentoo-r8. Kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 > > > fails to emerge any driver whatsoever. > > > > I have now (finally) successfully compiled the latest kernel > > 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 kernel. Once I enabled the 'Generic IEEE 802.11 > > Networking Stack (mac80211)' option in Networking --> Wireless, the > > Realtek RTL8187 USB support option appears in Device Drivers --> Network > > Device Support --> Wireless LAN section under wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11). > > > > With this RTL8187 driver compiled into the kernel, I get some success. > > > > Running the command 'dmesg | grep rtl8187' after reboot returns the > > message usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187 > > > > There is, however, no /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 on my system, so I'm not > > quite there yet. > > > > There is a net.eth0 (wired network), and a net.lo > > What do I need to do to get net.wlan0 active? > > > > Thanks > > > > Jeff > > Check the output of "iwconfig". Maybe the device's got another name like > eth1 or rtl0 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list