Setting up wireless itnernet connection

Strange situation here, I will try to explain it in the best detail I
can.
My computer (1.4 GHz Athlon with 512 mb DDR Ram... bla bla) has two
removable drives, no HD that stays in there. my bios boots cd, then
floppy, then hdd. I put in my blank 20 gig HD, and boto with the
gentoo livecd, going through the install.txt, I fdisk my drives,
partioned a 1 gig swap, and 19.5 gig ext2 two, and I flagged boot.
i turn the swap on, mount the drive (/mnt/gentoo), untar/bz the
stage*3* file (at the right location), mount -o bind /proc
/mnt/gentoo/proc (I don't know what this does) and chroot.
Because I haven't set up the network, I can't emerge sync, and this is
where the problem comes in.

I run cable broadband internet, connected to a smc7004VWBR wireless
router. however, I am directly connected (windows box upstairs uses
the wireless network card)
I tried following the instructions in install.txt, but to no avail,
any help?

Extra Question: now that I have the stage 3 extracted into the
filesystem, will I need the cd to boot (then chroot to /mnt/gentoo)?
or can I just take out the cd, boot and it will load what I have of
gentoo?

Thanks in advance.

>From the sounds of it, your problem is a Gentoo installation problem.
It's still relevant to post here, you but might get more specific
response from the actual Gentoo Forums (http://forums.gentoo.org) since
not everyone here would be familiar with Gentoo.

I am still trying to understand the exact problem you are experiencing.
>From what I gather, you have successfully got yourself to stage 3 in
the installation - which generally means you should already have a
fully working system. The process of 'emerge --sync' is simply to
update the package database to then allow you to update packages - but
is not essential to the running of your system at this stage.

What you DO need to do is to install a kernel and boot loader to the
system - which answers your extra question... no, your system is not
quite bootable off the harddisc just yet.

Can you give more details about your network setup? You say the windows
box upstairs uses the wireless - how about the linux machine? Is that
connected through a cable? Or wireless also? You need to make sure
there is the appropriate driver for the networking hardware you own
loaded into the system. Type 'ifconfig' to see what network devices are
listed - or type "dmesg | grep eth" to see if anything was even
detected. If yes (ignoring the ieee1394 driver), try running 'net-setup
ethx' (x= 0,1,2 etc....) .

Post a little more information online, and we might better help you.

Terence

"Terence" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed) oups.com>...
> >From the sounds of it, your problem is a Gentoo installation problem.
> It's still relevant to post here, you but might get more specific
> response from the actual Gentoo Forums (http://forums.gentoo.org) since
> not everyone here would be familiar with Gentoo.
>
> I am still trying to understand the exact problem you are experiencing.
> >From what I gather, you have successfully got yourself to stage 3 in
> the installation - which generally means you should already have a
> fully working system. The process of 'emerge --sync' is simply to
> update the package database to then allow you to update packages - but
> is not essential to the running of your system at this stage.
>
> What you DO need to do is to install a kernel and boot loader to the
> system - which answers your extra question... no, your system is not
> quite bootable off the harddisc just yet.
>
> Can you give more details about your network setup? You say the windows
> box upstairs uses the wireless - how about the linux machine? Is that
> connected through a cable? Or wireless also? You need to make sure
> there is the appropriate driver for the networking hardware you own
> loaded into the system. Type 'ifconfig' to see what network devices are
> listed - or type "dmesg | grep eth" to see if anything was even
> detected. If yes (ignoring the ieee1394 driver), try running 'net-setup
> ethx' (x= 0,1,2 etc....) .
>
> Post a little more information online, and we might better help you.
>
> Terence

Heh, rebooted today to try some new stuff.
Turns out, not a single eth* device is in /dev.
I tried ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/divers/net
and
ls /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/net/*

since I have a smc7004VWBR wireless router, i greped for smc, and
modprobed the following
smc-ultra
smc9194
smc-ircc
smctr
and smc91c92_c2, non worked.
should I be looking for a driver for my network card instead?
(VIA Networking Veloctiy Family Giga-bit Ethernet Adapter)


P.S. Yes, my network card is plugged directly into my wireless router.

Yes, you should be looking for a driver for whatever is directly inside
your computer - in this case your network card instead.

If you have a VIA Velocity, then you should be loading the
via-velocity.ko driver. After that you should see an eth0 device , and
you can then run 'net-setup' in order to assign it an IP address (by
DHCP, I presume).

If that goes smoothly you should then be online and can proceed to do
'emerge --sync' and install a kernel and boot loader.

Terence

> Heh, rebooted today to try some new stuff.
> Turns out, not a single eth* device is in /dev.
> I tried ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/divers/net
> and
> ls /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/net/*
>
> since I have a smc7004VWBR wireless router, i greped for smc, and
> modprobed the following
> smc-ultra
> smc9194
> smc-ircc
> smctr
> and smc91c92_c2, non worked.
> should I be looking for a driver for my network card instead?
> (VIA Networking Veloctiy Family Giga-bit Ethernet Adapter)
>
>
> P.S. Yes, my network card is plugged directly into my wireless router.
I tried to find drivers for my network card, I couldn't find much
excepting an info page, and some tests on Redhat

oops, I didn't see that post of yours.
Thanks, I will try right now, it should be included on the cd, correct?

(E-Mail Removed) (Ashran) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed). com>...
> oops, I didn't see that post of yours.
> Thanks, I will try right now, it should be included on the cd, correct?

I put veloctiyget.tgzo on a floppy, spend an hour trying to mount it
(I try ALL the fd0u***, then fd1u***, then i realize i didnt push the
flopy in all the way, and it was plain old fd1) i copy to my HD, I
unter but when i try to make, it says it cannot find the kernel source
directory (this error code is in the make file)
Any help?

Thanks.

I tried copying /mt/cloop/lib/modules/2.4.20... to
/usr/src/linux/2.420.. but cp omitted it, is this even what I need to
copy?
Please hlep I am so stuck.

Thanks.

I am getting a bit confused now on what you are trying to achieve. Are
you attempting to install Gentoo Linux? Or are you using a different
distribution? If you're using Gentoo - which version are you
installing? Generally, the 2004.x series now use 2.6 kernels - so i'm
not sure why you are copying the 2.4 drivers.

If you boot and install from a recent 2004.x based Gentoo CD, and use
the 2.6 kernel for your system, you should find that the VIA Velocity
driver is already included on the CD and should be available for use
immediately. If it's not auto detected, you should be able to modprobe
the via-velocity.ko driver.

I am trying ot install Gentoo, The CD I was using is a bit older, it is
gentoo linux stage3 1.4_rc4 compiled for x86, using two different
methods for finding drivers, velocity was not on my CD, however, I do
have an uncompressed velocityget on my harddrive, the only problem
begin I cannot compile it.
On the 1.4_rc4 CD, there is two kernels, and both are 2.4.*