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<0> tahts why i mention i ahve a usb stick
<1> go somewhere that has it
<1> do emerge --fetchonly
<1> and you can later emerge pkgname and it'll use the local files
<0> the only available network on this is the wireless
<1> that's one solution
<1> snax: And you don't have wifi on the laptop?
<1> Hrm
<0> i need ndiswrapper for the wireless to work
<1> I see
<1> Wait
<1> What card is it?
<0> i need ndiswrapper before i can go wireless
<1> broadcom?
<2> what wireless card?
<0> wpc54gs
<1> THERE'S AN IN KERNEL DRIVER FOR THAT NOW!!!
<0> WOOOHOOO!!!
<0> no ****
<0> thats great
<0> well
<1> all you need is the firmware
<0> well
<0> you know
<0> i somehow doubt this livecd is going to have that kernel
<1> bcm43xx-fwcutter and a firwmare file, like from the windows .sys driver or al_wspta.o or whatever file it is
<1> snax, it won't have the firmware, at any rate
<1> it might be there as a module, but you'll need to p*** firmware to it
<1> what is the current kernel on livecd? i think the driver popped up in 2.6.16
<0> not sure
<2> knoppix 5.x might have it
<1> snax: Here's what you can do: Get the big*** livecd, install from that, on a usb stick get a new kernel tree from kernel.org
<1> and also find the bcm43xx firmware cutter tarball
<1> and ALSO find a copy of the wpc54g/s driver .sys file
<1> the bcmwl5.sys i think it is?
<0> yea
<1> set up the kernel, throw the files the cutter throws out into /lib/firmware
<1> reboot and enjoy
<0> never done a fw update
<1> i'm not so sure if it works good on the GS cards, but damn if it dosn't work on my WPC54G and my airport express
<0> i'll get back with you seth tahnks alot
<1> snax: no, it's not a firmware update
<1> it's a firmware upload
<0> ah
<1> broadcom is too cheap to keep the firmware on the card
<1> ram is cheap, flash is expensive; )
<1> so the driver has to load it every time
<3> flash is actually getting pretty cheap thanks to ipods
<1> not really
<0> i'll try
<1> not the like 1KB ones ;)
<1> it has the firmware, the microcode, and some pcm thing
<1> heh
<0> bb
<0> brb
<0> seth is there a readme for this
<1> ummm
<1> hold on
<1> http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/
<1> it's been in kernel since 2.6.17-rc2
<0> k thnx
<2> -rc2 is the very very newist
<1> which means it's in gentoo unstable on powerpc officially, but it was in 2.6.17 which means gentoos patchest backported it, i think
<0> this will have the instructions?
<1> oh yes
<1> that's the site that has the fwcutter and all that
<0> cool
<1> and it's the bcm43xx project site
<1> heh
<1> MrEcho, no, the kernel i just pulled from git about 5 hours ago is close to the very newest :)
<2> gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r2 came out 07/07/06
<0> too bad this cutter tool isnt coming w/ the livecd:)
<0> so ndiswrapper isnt as good as this??
<1> well
<1> this is native
<1> and uh
<1> dosn't have to translate windows driver code and stuff?
<1> :/
<1> hey, it works a damn sight better then ndiswrapper did from my limited testing
<1> at least, the connection remains while i'm in my room whilst ndiswrapper didn't :D
<0> good good
<0> well
<0> im going to TRY to get this old PCMCIA nic to work
<0> the dongle is bhad
<0> bad
<0> so i've got to like.. crimp it just right
<1> hahaha
<1> :D
<1> fun times
<0> yea
<0> emerge gentoo-sources will give me the latest?
<0> or if i do the update world deep **** it will update it for me??
<2> no
<0> or if i do the update world deep **** it will update it for me??
<0> er
<2> its ~x86
<0> sorry guys im an old slackware user
<2> echo "gentoo-sources ~86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
<0> i used to be a design engineer @ ibm in the linux/aix labs
<1> are you kidding?
<0> but we never touched gentoo.. or slackware either..
<1> i still have .9 kernel machines running
<0> slack has been my thing since i was in my teens
<0> 10 years ago.. lol
<0> god..
<2> err btw i screwed up on that echo ... it needed a ~x86 not ~86
<1> heh
<2> i hate using the word "echo" at times....
<0> mrecho
<0> heh
<0> what is that goign to do exactly
<0> allow installation of **** thats not "gentoo ready" or whatever
<2> ~x86 = testing/unstable
<0> cool
<0> gentoo is really nice
<1> eh
<1> i prefer LFS
<2> it switched me to linux
<0> **** that I like OS/2
<1> but i'm too lazy at the moment
<1> hehheh
<0> I'd be putting OS/2 Warp 3.0 on this Laptop .. but it doesnt havee a floppy drive!!!!!
<1> I still have an OS/2 warp E-server running on an intellistation dual P2 ...
<1> =]
<1> snax: Pfft, i have a shrinkwrapped when i got it copy of OS/2
<0> i love os/2
<1> it came with two disk 7s and no disk 8
<1> it was 2.1
<0> lol
<1> do you think ibm can still replace my faulty package?
<0> haha
<0> no..
<1> :)
<0> they quit selling os/2 in 2005
<0> :)
<0> ive got 4.52, 3.0 connect w/ Windows, and 3.0 ... and 4.0..
<0> haha
<0> ive got all of the warps cept the server versions
<2> isnt there some opensource OS project that is trying to run os/2 apps ?
<0> i just wish i had one that WAS A BOOTABLE CD
<0> its not opensource
<0> its called..
<0> ecomstation
<0> well.. if it is opensource didntk now that
<0> its basically os/2 warp 4.52 with updates and more compatibility
<0> 2.0 comes w/ firefox
<0> and some good stuff
<0> firefox w/ openoffice 2.0
<2> nice
<0> i like it.. i'll wait for 2.0 to come out
<0> its beta now
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