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i just got gentoo, and i had to do a networkless install, because the only way i can get internet on that computer is through a wireless usb card, which i have to install the driver myself. when i tried to do that i found out the kernel sources weren't installed. how would i go about installing them?
Download the appropriate kernel-sources package from some of Gentoo's mirrors, using some other pc, (the version, 2.6.17-gentoo-r7, has to match), then transfer the file to your pc and install it locally using Gentoo's package manager.
Distribution: Xubuntu 9.10, Gentoo 2.6.27 (AMD64), Darwin 9.0.0 (arm)
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Are you sure? weather you use genkernel or manually configure the kernel gentoo still compiles it. so it should be there. how did you install gentoo? is there anything in /usr/src ? if for some reason you dont have them the package is called gentoo-sources do:
emerge -pv gentoo-sources
this should list all the files it needs you can download these from a mirror (see the list on gentoo.org) put them in /usr/src/distfiles and
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