Hi, >> Oh soz, thought that "R" meant re-compile. sorry. > > it does mean recompile, however what your saying is: > emerge -p <package> = compile newest stable version of package > > and if the newest stable version is the one you've already got, then it > will "Recompile" it.
K, cheers, I am still learning :). >> > It might be helpful if you supply the exact command you're trying to >> > use, and a sample of the output. It may be that you should be doing >> > something slightly different. >> >> umm.. I am not at the PC at the minute, but I think it is something >> like iwconfig wlan0 up > > I was referring to the emerge commands, but you seem to have that > sorted out now. > >> to bring up the wlan0 with the ndiswrapper (I assume ?) and it is >> stopping on this, > > now that you've mentioned it though, if you still want to try the ndis > version and not wait for the rt2500 package, then you have to > 1. install ndiswrapper (of course :) > 2. load your inf file from windows (I'll leave it up to you to find out > which one :) > 3. load it (modprobe ndiswrapper) > 4. then set essid, key, etc with iwconfig > 5. then do ifconfig wlan0 ... (or dhcp) Ok, thanks, I have already done this before because it was working. But I am not sure why it is not now, I shall have to check my emerge logs for the passed week and see what is in there that could effect this. (sorry for saying the obvious, of which I should have done last night) > OO is fine to upgrade, if a little large. I use the openoffice-bin > (version 2) and it works great! yeah that is the version and I am impressed with that as well :). > >> btw do you use wpa_supplicant >> with the rt2500 driver ? > > no, I've been meaning to for a while, so it's on my list of "been > meaning to's" Cheers once I am back online, I may see if the rt2500 driver works with wpa_supplicant because that is how I am/was using ndiswrapper with. Thanks for all of the help Ian > cya, > -- > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
