gentoo iw3945
Posted by sonic23 on May 20, 2008
The minimal install CD does not support it. The only thing the minimal install CD is used for is to install your Gentoo system locally. Once you’ve installed Gentoo on your system and your ready to get your Intel wireless working do the following…
In your kernel configure the following as modules..
CONFIG_IEEE80211=y
# CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP=M
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_CCMP=M
CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP=M
CONFIG_IEEE80211_SOFTMAC=M
then recompile/install your kernel.
Then emerge the following…
1. wireless-tools or wpa_supplicant (whatever fits your network setup/preference)
2. ipw3945 (this will also pull down ipw3945d & ipw3945-ucode)
And that is it. your wireless will more than likely be “ETH1″. You’ll notice at boot time that there is a ipw3945 service. Apparently for this particular wireless card it has to be ran as a service to get started. I cant remember why.
