wireless on inspiron 1420

[hippomofatumas]

hi everyone,

im brand new to sabayon, and everything gentoo. ive been using and have been happy with ubuntu for a long time. but on this new laptop here, ubuntu wasn't working right (at least not 7.04, got hopes for 7.10).

i was very pleased with the install of sabayon, graphics are working and so is wired internet, but my wireless isnt working or i dont know how to use it right. i think when it is in "roaming mode" it is seeing all of the wireless connections in surrounding apts and it is definitely seeing mine. but i cant connect to it. i dont have any wep or wpa set up yet. i do have a static ip on my windows partition, but when i tried to set it here all of the networks disappeared.

please help me get wireless up and running!

thanks

[hippomofatumas]

ive tried ndiswrapper with an xp driver, no luck. i have tried several walkthroughs, no luck.

poo. someone help me!

[edgevision]

What wireless card are you using? You're going to need to modprobe the driver (if it isn't already listed in lsmod) and then run net-setup to configure a static IP.

[hippomofatumas]

its an intel 4965, they only make one variety. at the moment i dont have a driver installed because nothing worked lol, but i think the one that would work best would be iwlwifi or whatever its called off of intellinuxwireless.org. the problem is i did what i was supposed to do, and it didnt work. i think i could also use ndiswrapper with a windows driver, but if there is a linux driver out there, might as well use it right? i tried net-setup when i had the driver installed and i still could not connect to any networks. the only problem i could see there is that i was using the same static ip as i have set on my windows partition, but i dont think that is a bad thing.

should i just try the walkthrough again?

[edgevision]

Sabayon is renowned for having top-notch driver support and detection. You already have this driver installed and compiled as a module. Try lsmod to see if it's running. If it isn't:

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# modprobe iwlwifi

As root.

[hippomofatumas]

i just tried the how to again:

http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iw ... to-iwlwifi

with no luck.

the driver is iwl4965, modprobe returned no errors, so it is running. remember, i can see all of the networks around me i just cant connect to any of them.