Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-31 Thread Michael
Hi Philip, On Wednesday, 31 May 2023 18:06:19 BST Philip Webb wrote: > 230531 Mark Dymek wrote: > > are you installing Gentoo or is this on a running system ? > > because the minimal installer only uses wpa_supplicant . > > i couldn’t get wi-fi to work when i was installing Gentoo. > > once i had

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
230531 Mark Dymek wrote: > are you installing Gentoo or is this on a running system ? > because the minimal installer only uses wpa_supplicant . > i couldn’t get wi-fi to work when i was installing Gentoo. > once i had everything installed though it worked. That's interesting, but it doesn't take

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
230531 Jack wrote: > On 5/31/23 12:30, Philip Webb wrote: >> Also, under "configuration:", Mint says "broadcast=yes, driver=nt7921e, > Is there a typo?  Above says driver nt7921e (first letter N) >> driver_version=5.15.0-generic, firmware=__91-20220209 150915, >> latency=0, multicast=yes, w

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-31 Thread Mark Dymek
are you installing gentoo or is this on a running system? because the minimal installer only uses wpa_supplicant i couldn’t get wi-fi to work when i was installing gentoo. once i had everything installed though it worked. On Wed, May 31, 2023, at 12:30 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks to Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-31 Thread Jack
On 5/31/23 12:30, Philip Webb wrote: Thanks to Michael for his helpful advice. I've narrowed the problem down somewhat, but Wifi still doesn't work on Gentoo, tho' it does on Mint + SR. The difference seems to be that when I enter 'lshw -class network' in Mint, I get "network | description : Wir

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

2023-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
Thanks to Michael for his helpful advice. I've narrowed the problem down somewhat, but Wifi still doesn't work on Gentoo, tho' it does on Mint + SR. The difference seems to be that when I enter 'lshw -class network' in Mint, I get "network | description : Wireless interface ... ", but in Gentoo it