Used the defaults livecd + installed defaults and no joy.
Then tryed a few other option below = no joy.
Lan works fine so networking is not the issue.
Seems it is a driver issues but surely the alternative funtoo working kernel + /~lib/modules should have fixed this ?
ifconfig
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f init.d # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee
inet addr:192.168.123.8 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::215:c5ff:fe45:e8b7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7286 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5949 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:9698350 (9.2 MiB) TX bytes:614008 (599.6 KiB)
Interrupt:17
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
iwconfig
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f init.d # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
wlan1 IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
f init.d #
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f init.d # ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
f init.d #
f init.d # ifconfig wlan1 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
f init.d #
modprobed -> wl b43 b44 bcm43xx before trying this as alternative fix.
Even copied the funtoo netif.d and wpa_supplicant.conf and no joy.
Next trying to reisntall the wifi drivers for zd1211rw and bcm43xx:
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f etc # equo search bcm43
>> @@ Searching...
>> @@ Package: net-wireless/bcm43xx-firmware-4319-r1 branch: 5, [repo_sabayonlinux.org]
>> Available: version: 4319-r1 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 3
>> Installed: version: Not installed ~ tag: N/A ~ revision: N/A
>> Slot: 0
>> Homepage: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/
>> Description: Firmware for the BCM43xx Broadcom
>> adapters
>> License: AS-IS
>> @@ Package: net-wireless/bcm43xx-fwcutter-006 branch: 5, [repo_sabayonlinux.org]
>> Available: version: 006 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 3
>> Installed: version: Not installed ~ tag: N/A ~ revision: N/A
>> Slot: 0
>> Homepage: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de
>> Description: Firmware Tool for Broadcom 43xx
>> based wireless network devices
>> License: GPL-2
>> Keywords: bcm43
>> Found: 2 entries
f etc #
Installing the zd1211rw seems to have worked in console just need to get networkmanager to work with this hardware, hopefully on next restart.
Hope this can helps someone else having wifi issues.
