In what will remain one of the great mysteries of my life...somehow during
installing Lenny 5.0.2 my BIOS setting was changed to "Wireless Off" instead
of "Wireless On". I am not joking - haven't touched the BIOS in months but
as soon I changed it to "Wireless On", I connected to my home network with
zero problems.
Wow. I wonder if this is some freak case or others are going to have the
same issue with fresh 5.0.2 installations. The BIOS was the last place I
thought about checking and it was just a "on the off chance the BIOS got
changed..." type thought that turned out to be true.
I saw another thread about someone unable to connect to wireless and had the
same symptoms as me - hopefully they read this and it works for them too.
Thanks for all who offered ideas and advice!
Mark
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mark Marcacci <mamar...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Well, apparently Network Manager isn't the problem since I installed wicd
and it says "No wireless networks found" (even after removing LAN line,
rebooting, etc). Have done a ton of researching, editing different files
such as /etc/network/interfaces, but nothing seems to get my wireless card
to sniff out signals no matter what I do.
I'm at a loss, can anyone help? Again my system info is a Broadcom BCM4306
wifi card on a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a fresh install of Lenny. I had the
wifi working without hardly any effort with 5.0.1 but now with 5.0.2 it
won't "wake up" so to speak and sniff out wireless networks. iwconfig shows
this:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Thanks,
Mark
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mon,29.Jun.09, 14:02:38, Mark Marcacci wrote:
>
> > Is wicd more widely used?
>
> I don't know, but for me it Just Works. I also installed it on my
> mothers laptop (lenny) from backports and had no issues with it.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
> --
> If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
> (Albert Einstein)
>
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