On Kindle so forced to top post. Sorry. Once you get to a root terminal you are free to follow the Gentoo install.
On 9/20/13, Henry W. Peters <hwpet...@jamadots.com> wrote: > On 9/20/2013 2:50 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Henry, >> In my personal search to find a USB 802.11ac networking adapter I >> ran across one additional resource which might help you, or others >> laters, in your searches. If you were to run the command 'lspci -nn | >> grep Ethernet' as I do here on my desktop: (adjust what you are >> grepping for if it's not Ethernet but rather something else) >> >> c2RAID6 ~ # lspci -nn | grep Ethernet >> 05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. >> 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller [11ab:4364] (rev 12) >> 07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. >> 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller [11ab:4364] (rev 12) >> c2RAID6 ~ # >> >> then you will find both the Ethernet controllers and their associated >> PCI vendor & device IDs. In my case for the Marvell controllers the ID >> is '11ab:4364' >> >> If you then go to Google in your browser and put this in the search >> area, making sure to remove the colon: >> >> "11ab 4364" site:cateee.net/lkddb/ >> >> the first result directs you to this page: >> >> http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/SKY2.html >> >> which gives you information about what kernels support this device. >> >> This works for both PCI & USB device IDs. >> >> Hope this helps, >> Mark > Thanks Mark for the info. It didn't help directly, but your ideas > spurred me on to find this: > > https://wiki.debian.org/rt2800pci > >> This page describes how to enable support for WiFi devices based on >> Ralink 802.11n PCI chipsets on Debian systems. > > > Which got my Debian/Mate/XFCE install functioning in wireless mode... > But probably more important, once again rather verifies that there is a > driver problem (with my Ralink) in Gentoo Live DVD... > > You mentioned in a previous msg, that it was possible to install Gentoo > from another "live" DVD/C OS... wondering if you know of any how to do > links... ? > > Regards, > Henry > > >
