Polytropon

First let’s tackle the SIOCSIFFLAGS:
It looks like all of this might be a result
of having the wrong driver installed. We’ll try v2 next. To do this, I had to manually delete the directory /etc/ndiswrapper/lsbcmnds
UPDATE: No change.

Found another website that has a non-ndiswrapper walk through. Apparently I hadn’t installed any firmware (a step not included in any of the other guides).

This process went smoothly enough, although I had to temporarily alter /etc/make.conf to emerge a couple masked packages (the firmware itself) but concluded with “reboot and configure your wireless.”. Aaaaaaaasaa that’s what I’m trying to do : (

Now I’m returning to the Gentoo Wireless Networking guide to repeat a number of steps, but this time with the firmware installed. That should make a difference, right?

Okay, Pub Quiz tonight, Science Fair judging in the morning and then back to this.

Back to Gentoo’s guide, I’m giving wpa supplicant a go.

After the emerge of wpa_supplicant I did:

rc-update add dbus default

then:

/etc/init.d/dbus restart

Then in /etc/conf.d/net I commented out the old module spec with iwconfig and the key, adding

modules="wpa_supplicant"
wpa_supplicant_eth0="-Dwext"

in its place.

Then there is the creation and editing of /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

And then I remove the comments fr everything above ifplugd.

After reboot, with the Ethernet unplugged, this led to no connection, and seeing as how it’s now 5 in the morning, I’m calling it for the time being.

Now begins the effort to set up wireless on Gentoo via the console.

To begin, I will be using the Gentoo Wireless Networking Guide.

I’m starting with emerging wireless-tools. The guide wasn’t very informative, so I emerged pciutils in order to run

lspci

to check for recognition of the wireless card.

and went over to this how-to

iwconfig

spits out some info re: wlan0. However, it does not recognize the network, which is up and running, as Netflix is streaming at the mo.

Back to Gentoo’s guide, I’m emerging ethtool.

After that, I wrote a lot to /etc/conf.d/net and then emerged ifplugd, a daemon that checks whether or not an Ethernet cable is plugged in. The configuration is done in /etc/conf.d/net

After this I am supposed to emerge openresolv to work with multiple DNS servers and configurations.

And here ends Gentoo’s manual.

Since the employees at the local
Apple Store have found “evidence of liquid,” instead of a job they acknowledge would run $100, they refused AppleCare coverage and want $750.

So, as a dissertating grad student, that’s unacceptable, and the Compaq will have to serve as my primary machine. Fortunately almost all of the work is kept on Dropbox and Google Docs, so this might work.

Well here it is.
CPU: 1.325 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1500+
RAM: 237,636 kB
Host Bridge: ATI Technologies Inc AGPBridge [IGP 320 M] (rev 13)
PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 320 M] (rev 01)
USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
ISA Bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535/M1543 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card CardBus Controller (rev 02)
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139c/8139c+ (rev 20)
Communication controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. HSF 56k HSFi Modem (rev 01)
USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1
Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

My Plan:
Gentoo 6.0.3
wireless