* peter bouchard <zell992...@gmail.com> [2009 Nov 01 19:27 -0600]: > Hello > I am new to the debian scene and i have no idea how to get the wifi > suport i have looked online and cannot find anything. if you could > please send me a link to a site that has a tutorial or please send me > one. thank you very much and i like your operating system very much > thank you verey much
I've had excellent success with the wicd package. My laptop has an Atheros card and the kernel/udev/hal loads the ath5k module on system start and wicd takes it from there. One must be careful to follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/wicd/README.Debian to the letter. the wicd package is in Sid (Unstable) and Squeeze (Testing) and I think a backport exists for Lenny (Stable). Enjoy! - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://n0nb.us/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
