This is guide that works for a laptop Samsung 700Z and Gentoo 3.2.1-r2 The wireless router uses WPA-Personal protection and DHCP 1. Install Firmware: my source on the net Gentoo miss a little piece to make wifi working : the firmware. go to the linux intel wifi site : http://intellinuxwireless.org/ and get the firmware, at this time this is the following : http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-6000g2b-ucode-18.168.6.1.tgz and put the file . ucode in /lib/firmware/, create the directory if it does not exist already. wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-6000g2b-ucode-18.168.6.1.tgz tar xzf iwlwifi-6000g2b-ucode-18.168.6.1.tgz cp iwlwifi-6000g2b-5.ucode /lib/firmware/ 2. Install wpa_supplicant: my source on the net emerge net-wireless/wpa_supplicant 3. Check if drivers works ifconfig -a if wlan0 appears, it works 4. configure wpa_supplicant: my source on the net edit /etc/conf.d/net: modules="wpa_supplicant" # T...