Re: GENTOO installation manual confusion

jmneedham-mqiTH3uDUMEAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Upon trying to install it the first time, it did not see my DVD+RW and it did 
> see
> my DVD-ROM (there are two DVD-ROM drives in the machine on the IDE chain)... also it 
> did not "see" the wireless card (for review:  A Linksys WMP11 Version 4).  
>
>  
did you add line like hda=ide-scsi to your kernel in grub (hd* being 
what the device is for the dvd burner), i usually just run dmesg and 
look for kerenl message about device, you could poke around /proc or 
someone else might know a better way.

> I now after muddling through the almost cryptic installation instructions (I am 
> still a
> Novice in Linux) I have come to believe what I want to do (correct me if I am 
> wrong here
> those of you who have used and use Gentoo) is a Stage 3 installation with GRP.  
> The problem
> is that I need the wireless network card working to do this.  So the question 
> is:
>
> Do I install the Stage 3 Tarball and use the Portage Tarball on the LiveCD and 
> then build
> the wireless into my kernel and then somehow magically get the files all 
> updated once we have
> Internet connectivity?  ....OR.... Is there a way to configure the wireless card before we 
> start installing the OS thereby having it ready to go get the Portage files from the net?  Which
> is what I would prefer to have happen...
>  
If you have anyway of putting a nic in the machine to do the install it 
would make life much easier.  You need to emerge the wireless-tools 
ebuild.  Otherwise you will need to come up with some otherway to get 
the wireless-tools source on the computer (goes in /usr/portage/distfiles).

You also need to make sure the wireless drivers are in kernel.  If you 
plan on using genkernel, then run it as genkernel --config, and check on 
what wireless modules are selected.

-Bill



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