Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't connect to internet from Live DVD.

2013-09-20 Thread Mark Knecht
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 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 add

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't connect to internet from Live DVD.

2013-09-20 Thread Henry W. Peters
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:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't connect to internet from Live DVD.

2013-09-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Henry W. Peters wrote: > On 9/19/2013 6:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Henry, >> Report back how it goes. I've never been forced to bring up >> wireless during an install so I'd like to understand how you make it >> work under Gentoo and what problems you run

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't connect to internet from Live DVD.

2013-09-19 Thread Henry W. Peters
On 9/19/2013 6:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Henry, Report back how it goes. I've never been forced to bring up wireless during an install so I'd like to understand how you make it work under Gentoo and what problems you run into, if any. I'm assuming here that Arch doesn't have any proprietary m

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't connect to internet from Live DVD.

2013-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Henry W. Peters wrote: > On 9/19/2013 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> This link says the Arch guys have a release with 3.10.10 which is a >> very recent long-term support kernel: >> >> https://www.archlinux.org/download/ >> > Thanks MUCH Mark (& ALL), I will try t

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't connect to internet from Live DVD.

2013-09-19 Thread Henry W. Peters
On 9/19/2013 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Drake Donahue wrote: support for the 5390 is probably not on the livedvd a system rescue cd may provide I think Drake's right. I hate to be pushing Arch Linux links around here but the SystemRescueCD kernel page says 3

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't connect to internet from Live DVD.

2013-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Drake Donahue wrote: > support for the 5390 is probably not on the livedvd > a system rescue cd may provide > I think Drake's right. I hate to be pushing Arch Linux links around here but the SystemRescueCD kernel page says 3.8 so I don't think that will work in t

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't connect to internet from Live DVD.

2013-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Henry W. Peters wrote: > On 9/19/2013 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > uname -a will tell us what kernel you have on the install DVD > > lspci -k will tell us what hardware > > >From there we can make more educated inputs. > > Ok, here they are (sorry, rather lon

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't connect to internet from Live DVD.

2013-09-19 Thread Drake Donahue
support for the 5390 is probably not on the livedvd a system rescue cd may provide from my menuconfig: I use several rotating usb ralinks --- Ralink driver support < > Ralink rt2400 (PCI/PCMCIA) support < > Ralink rt2500 (PCI/PCMCIA) support

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't connect to internet from Live DVD.

2013-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Henry W. Peters wrote: > On 9/19/2013 1:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >> >> 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

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't connect to internet from Live DVD.

2013-09-19 Thread Henry W. Peters
On 9/19/2013 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Ah, sorry. You did bury in there that it was a desktop. My mistake. I just lept to the laptop conclusion as you are working on wireless. That said I've always had better luck, especially with newer hardware, making sure I sta

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't connect to internet from Live DVD.

2013-09-19 Thread Henry W. Peters
On 9/19/2013 1:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't connect to internet from Live DVD.

2013-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Henry W. Peters 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 neithe

[gentoo-amd64] Can't connect to internet from Live DVD.

2013-09-19 Thread Henry W. Peters
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