I don't have so much money to buy a Mac of Thinkpad.So I buy a powerful but cheaper laptop Acer 4820G.Sometimes I have a thought of anti-Mac,I don't have so much money to burning.

I think the suitable is the best,so I choose it.

Of course,I need to install Gentoo on it.Previously,I think I will have a lot of issues to resolve, as your wish I have it indeed.But all the procedure seems ok,don't have very serious issue.The mostly I think is the wireless driver.

So I make a note of the issues I have meet here,when I need to install Gentoo again,it will be a greatly helper.

My kernel config:http://paste.pocoo.org/show/384046/

Refer to http://www.lxg.de/2011/04

localhost ~ # lspci -v|grep -i net 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Device 1073 (rev c0) 03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4357 (rev 01)

Step1:

mkdir ~/kernelgit
cd ~/kernelgit
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git

Step2:

Device Drivers  --->
	Generic Driver Options  --->
		External firmware blobs to build into the kernel binary

Step3:

Also I need to copy

cp brcm/bcm43xx* /lib/firmware/brcm/
cp brcm/bcm43xx* /usr/src/linux/firmware/

Then compile the kernel as usual:

make
make modules_install
cp /arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.38-r2

Then reboot,I can start net.wlan0

How to enable net.wlan0 tips: 1.Config /etc/conf.d/net

localhost linux # cat /etc/conf.d/net|grep -v ^#|grep -v ^$
config_eth0=("dhcp")
modules=("wpa_supplicant")
wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext"
config_wlan0=("192.168.1.20/24")
routes_wlan0=("default via 192.168.1.1")

2.Make a soft link of net.lo

ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0

3.Use rc-update add net.wlan0

rc-update add net.wlan0 default