On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Henry W. Peters <hwpet...@jamadots.com>wrote:
> Back (again) at trying to install Gentoo with new "stuff." > > Now, I'm having problems with my "Ralink RT5390R 802.1 bgn Wi-Fi Adapter" > (in my new HP Pavillion 500, AMD64 desktop). Besides the Gentoo LiveDVD > (AMD64)... in which neither a wireless or ethernet network is apparently > detected by the DVD (udev?), I DID try "System rescue CD," no internet > connect there either. > > In the spirit of seeing if I could boot up with UEFI (as you may be aware, > Windows 8 version of a bios) & an external USB 3 hard drive (yet some > problems to be resolved; i.e., how to handle dual os's in a workable > manner), I also tried Ubuntu Studio live DVD (all of this in "legacy" mode, > though I did not actually install), & it configured wireless for me, all I > had to do was enter my router key... then I also temporarily installed > Debian Wheezy & Mate... on the external hd, which wouldn't connect with > wireless, but would via ethernet (the installation more or less worked; > Gnome 3 does apparently not like my AMD64 Radeon integrated graphics card > [image: > :?] ). Very puzzling. [image: :?:] > > Any suggestions welcome! > Henry > > P.s., I think I read awhile ago, something about an RF kill switch...? > (not sure of the relevancy, but thought I might ask, just in case...) > Henry, I think it would be good if you posted the output of a few commands so we could get our bearings: uname -a lspci -k lsmod My wife's laptop uses wireless. I took a quick look in her kernel config and don't find "RALINK" so I'm not sure what driver should be enabled. In terms of doing the install presumably you have a wired Ethernet port on this laptop? If so you are likely to do better with that during install. I didn't get her ATH9K wireless working until I was running Gentoo. Good luck, Mark
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