Wireless issues on the HP nc6000 [SOLVED]

[WarraWarra]

If you can maybe give the name of the wireless card make model etc then I am sure there is a working solution out there.

You can try the live dvd / cd again and see with lspci or lsmod as to what is going on then to copy/duplicate this is much easier. Might have ti use knetworkmananger to get it to run propperly.

[anfernio]

I thought that I made a post this morning, it must not have worked.

My wireless card is a Cisco Aironet 340. Whenever I do lspci | grep net, the outcome is always:
0a:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network Connection (rev 02)

It is always that even after I make changes.

I don't have a copy of the results for lsmod, so I can get that for you later today. Do you want me to just give you the outcome without making any changes, or should I try something like ndiswrapper first?

I also wanted to mention that Cisco has both linux and windows drivers for this card on their website. I have only tried their windows driver because I cannot figure out how to get all of the dependencies to work to use the linux installer. If I can find just the driver somewhere, should I try that? Or does Sabayon already come with the most up to date version?

[anfernio]

I think it's fixed now!

I was wandering around through the forum and finally found something similar to my problem. I have no idea who made the post because I had to copy the text and then reboot into Sabayon. I typed: ./etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart, then I did rc-update add net.eth1 default, and then I went into net-setup and configured eth1.

I'm afraid to restart my laptop now. I have no idea how long this will work.

[WarraWarra]

IF it is added using rc-update then restarting should not be a problem = loading at startup by defualt now. Did it also load the driver / module to make it to work ?

If the driver / module is there to make it work then use net-setup to get connection to wireless router if not already connected.

The Cisco Aironet 340 should show up as something else not as intel 100 I could be 100% wrong here.

Loading the pcmcia part you could get it working if not already loaded with "modprobe pcmcia" have to check on this not sure about name for pcmcia.

lsmod should list it if it is loaded as pcmciasomething or just pcmcia.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/102/wlan/linux.html
Installing the drivers.

You can download and extract the aironet .gz file using right click and "extract" option if using kde.

Might be able to skip the pcmcia compile part.

I can not think that the aironet is not yet in the kernel.

Will fire up the SL install and have a looksee maybe there is a easier way.

[anfernio]

Well it didn't work anymore. It's not worth trying to fix now that the next release comes out in 10 days. Thanks for all of the help.

I hope the next one fixes this problem. This is the only linux distro that just seemed to work perfectly with my laptop(except the wireless card issue). So I guess I will have to be miserable with Windows for ten days.