Wireless on sabayon.. help help!

[iandvedwards]

Hi, I'm brand new to linux!

Just installed Sabayon, and its all working fine and set up all my video, sound card etc...except my internal wireless adapter.

It has found it and appears to have set it up - however when i use the KNetwork Manager - its setup the adapter and finds my wireless router (and yes the router and my mac address etc are all set up). I go to connect to my wireless network, asks for my WEP key which I type in and then the "Activating Wireless Network" box comes up and gets to 28% on activation stage: configuring device. It just stops and doesnt do anything else. Please can anyone help? (I have used both Shared and Open Key)

Getting the wireless internet going is the only thing I need to be able to leave Windows behind!!

Thanks.

[edgevision]

Thanks for your post, iandvedwards. Can you please post the make and model of the machine you're using (I'm assuming it's a laptop?) Linux has great support for some wireless cards at the moment and sketchy (at best) for others. Either way, I'm sure we can help you out.

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lspci | grep net

That should provide your network card information. If you could post it that would be great!

[iandvedwards]

Hi,

I'm running it on a Novatech laptop - which I believe is a Uniwill 259ENls

That code didn't work in the Konsole.. however KNetworkManager says its a

"RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI"

[iandvedwards]

Just realised i needed to be logged in a root rather than a user to get that lspci code to work:

Here's the output:

"01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL 8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

Hope this helps now!

[FLeTcH]

Code:
lspci | grep net
scans output of lspci for instances of "net", which leaves out Net, RaLink, 2500, 802.11g, etc
instead use
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lspci | grep 802.11
the gigabyte is/was your wire ethernet LAN not your wireless pci
i too have issues with my wireless
the best workaround i've found in these forums is to
unmerge knetwork manager and use
Code:
net-setup
and follow the set-up gui
and/or
emerge network manager or wlanassistant

good luck and welcome to SL

[edgevision]

Thanks for the correction, Fletch!

[iandvedwards]

ok, with the new code its:

"01:07.0 Network Controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini -PCI (rev 01)

any further ideas suggestions?

[iandvedwards]

I'm obviously showing my newbie-ness!! How do I unmerge the knetwork manager?

[iandvedwards]

Code:
lspci | grep net
scans output of lspci for instances of "net", which leaves out Net, RaLink, 2500, 802.11g, etc
instead use
Code:
lspci | grep 802.11
the gigabyte is/was your wire ethernet LAN not your wireless pci
i too have issues with my wireless
the best workaround i've found in these forums is to
unmerge knetwork manager and use
Code:
net-setup
and follow the set-up gui
and/or
emerge network manager or wlanassistant

good luck and welcome to SL


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Tried the above - managed to unmerge knetwork manager. net-setup loaded up and completed screens. now i have nothing going at all!?!? emerge network manager or wlanassistant don't work either?!?! ahhhh!![/quote]

[edgevision]

To unmerge a package, you simply would use the following:

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emerge -C knetworkmanager

To emerge a package, you can first look it up by using -s, like this:

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emerge -s wlassistant

This will display all packages with the keywords you specify. If you already know the name of the package you're looking for, just use:

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emerge -a wlassistant

It will calculate all dependencies, show them to you, and verify that you want to continue with the emerge. Also, this thread may be of some help.

Good luck!