[Sussex] Good tip for recovering from catastrophe

[Geoff Teale]

Matt,

Matt Wrote:
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> All,
> 
> Does Gentoo Linux recognise wireless NICs?  I can't get my 
> zoomair or my 
> belkin to work under RH7.1 having downloaded of pcmcia_cs and 
> wlan-ng and 
> compiled them.  I just keep getting a "unresolved suybol" 
> error and it won't 
> compile.

Gentoo can do anything that you can do with a LINUX box, I can't talk about
your specific kit because I never even looked into wireless support on
LINUX.  

Effectively Gentoo is LINUX from Scratch with a nice toolset to download,
compile and install packages (and resolve their dependences).  If you set it
up right then it should work simple as that.  The Gentoo kernel doesn't
require a particular swathe of patches like Red Hat or SuSE do.  It's pretty
much any build you like as long as include devfs and virtual memory
filesystem.
 
> I'm downloading the latest version of Gentoo (seemed like a 
> laugh...) and I'm 
> gonna try it, but I'm not sure...

I hope by latest you mean 1.2 and not a 1.4 beta!  Gentoo's stable release
it _pretty_damned_cutting_edge_ as distros go.  1.4betas are quite stable
but they will not be maintained beyond the 1.4 stable release date - at that
point their portage tree will be closed (Gentoo don't have a three-versions
policy like Debian) and you'll have to do some engineering in the setup to
get the thing running smoothly again.

Also I hope you've got decent bandwidth because Gentoo with a 56k dial-up is
not really a very good idea (unless you have infinite patience and a
friendly ISP).

-- 
Geoff Teale
geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk


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