Tackling the Gentoo beast!

[DerpyTurtle]

Hello guys,

So tonight I decided to take on the task of installing gentoo on my laptop. Now I have a few problems. I have wireless internet in my apartment, the problem I dont have physical access to the router so I need to configure my wireless. I have tried what I know and I am looking through a bunch of sites trying to find out how to setup my wireless card and connect to the network but everything is for Debian/Ubuntu users.

I have tried the

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net-setup utility but to no avail.

When I try

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ls /sys/class/net It only shows the enp2s0 and local interfaces.

I am so confused and feel like I am missing something that is right in front of me but this is my first time installing gentoo on physical hardware! I am not new to linux I am just trying to get better and I decided I wanted to try this so any help would be appreciated!


***I know I dont need to install gentoo but I want to. My normal distro of choice is CrunchBang***

[proxx]

Post:
lspci
dmesg
ifconfig -a

[devnithz]

^ ipconfig -a ? I think its ipconifg -c

[Xires]

ipconfig is a command on Windows, not Linux.  The ifconfig command is typically used to list network interfaces.  The -a switch tells ifconfig to print all interfaces that it knows about, not just the ones that are currently configured with an address.  Incidentally, it may be the case that ifconfig is unavailable and so `ip link show` might be necessary instead.

[bones]

Gentoo has a very thorough handbook:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wifi

Honestly though, I think the best way to install Gentoo is using the SystemRescueCD, which has networkmanager ready to go:

http://blog.kasunbg.org/2012/02/installing-gentoo-from-livecd.html
http://swift.siphos.be/linux_sea/installgentoo.html