I have a ENCORE ENPWI-G2 wireless PCMCIA card for my Sony Viao PCG-GRZ660, I've tried to install it by all means with no luck, on windows it works perfectly, but on Sabayon it has been impossible so far. I'm working on SL 5.4 x86 G, and I know the kernel has the driver in mainline, but it doesn't work, it shows low signal even being on the router itself and will no connect, I downloaded the drivers form encore's site (http://www.encore-usa.com/co/support/ENPWI-G2) but I cannot biuld it using make.
I've searched on the net, and I've found out answers only for ubuntu and kubuntu, where they use build-essentials to compile the driver, I understand there is no such build-essentials in SL, and unfortunately I've not been able to make it.
tried ndiswrapper following these links:
http://www.ubuntu-es.org/?q=node/81741&page=1
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-491680.html
i followed directions, but I have still the same problem.
Can anyone help me? How to make it work, could anyone create ebuild or a entropy package with the driver? thanks for any help here
this is my info
(sorry if the post is too long)
my lspci is:
MIA-Air m.aldana # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
02:05.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a8)
02:05.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a8)
02:05.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)
my ifconfig
MIA-Air m.aldana # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:46:81:ad:3c
inet addr:192.168.10.2 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:46ff:fe81:ad3c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:70069 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:40320 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:100196715 (95.5 MiB) TX bytes:6005236 (5.7 MiB)
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:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1120 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:1120 (1.0 KiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:f4:f9:14:95
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 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:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
my dmesg | grep eth
MIA-Air m.aldana # dmesg | grep eth
[ 36.713902] e100 0000:02:08.0: eth0: addr 0xe8200000, irq 9, MAC addr 08:00:46:81:ad:3c
[ 51.411208] e100 0000:02:08.0: eth0: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
[ 63.570036] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 159.708337] e100 0000:02:08.0: eth0: NIC Link is Down
[ 163.708171] e100 0000:02:08.0: eth0: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
