Gentoo install + Usb dongle

Enfield

Enfield

Enfield

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Hi guys,

Want to get stuck in with Linux Gentoo and need help getting my BT Voyager 1055 usb dongle detected!

i've done this:

# ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless

but have no idea what one to choose?

please help a noob
 
Thanks Billy, getting a little tiny weeny bit closer...

Update:

X Server didn't work so I had to edit the config file, find where it says "ati" and change it to "vesa" to get it to work.

Now I am trying to do extract a .tar.gz file from a cd and it says segmentation error. What does this mean?

Also, when the screen gives out a load of code really quickly then leaves me with a flashing curser, how do I get the livecd root screen back?
 
Vesa video driver... eurgh... you won't get any 3d acceleration with that.

Segmentation errors (a.k.a. segfaults) are when a piece of code tries to read/write a section of memory which hasn't been allocated to it (or access it in a way that it's not allowed to). It's basically the application crashing because the kernel won't allow it.

Hmm... not sure what you mean by this. have you tried hitting return? If not, then try opening another console - alt+f2 or alt+f3, etc... alt+f1 to get you back to the first one (ctrl +alt+f7 or above for X screens)

EDIT: I expect that if you copy the tar ball from the cd to a local (writable) area and extracting it from there will not crash tar.
 
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Cannot even eject a CD because it is busy but I guess this is because the bash process is using it?

Currently there is nothing on my HDD, and im running gentoo from the cd.

What I'm trying to do is extract this NDISwrapper program but to do this I have to take out the Gentoo CD and put in the other CD which has the NDISwrapper and .sys and .inf files on it.

I'm so confused
 
I don't think you'll be able to remove the disk as it's mounted (and probably mounted as /). unless you *need* the wifi to install, I would recommend installing via cabled ethernet and then installing the other drivers once you have a working box.

Or put the files on a USB drive, mount them in Gentoo and work from there.
 
How hard can this be?

Cannot even mount the floppy drive.

I have typed this:

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

and it replies

mount: mount point /mnt/floppy does not exist

What on earth...? (Old Dell laptop with floppy drive connected through cable not through the dock)
 
Ok, the mkdir worked but now I get another error:

mount: special device /dev/fd0 does not exist

The floppy drive connects via a serial port if that makes any difference?
 
It says:

Disk /dev/hda: 12.0GB, 12072517632 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 23392 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Disk /dev/hda doesn't contain a valid partition table

I'm at the very beginning stage of installing, again, nothing on the hard drive.
 
use usb...

btw - Gentoo is far from the most noob friendly linux. If you really want to know linux, then it really is an excellent choice though.
 
Cannot for the life of me get this system to find a simple floppy drive. :rolleyes:

However, I have managed to mount a USB flashdrive. I then tried to extract ndiswrapper-1.52.tar.gz by running this command:

tar -zxvf ndiswrapper-version.tar.gz

But recieved an error, so popped usbflash drive back into my windows comp and extract the contents onto it.

Now trying to run the command below taken from here http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/...ption,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/id,installation/

livecd ndiswrapper-1.52 # make distclean

Now I am presented with this:

make -C driver clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/usbflash/ndiswrapper-1.52/driver'
Makefile:24: *** Kernel tree not found - please set KBUILD to configured kernel. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/usbflash/ndiswrapper-1.52/driver'
make: *** [clean] Error 2

Please help! :(
 
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