On Jo, 23 iun 11, 13:24:35, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > In my Acer Aspire One laptop the wireless (ath5k) network started > working when I installed package "hostapd". I don't know what it does > but my laptop needs it. :-) My system is Debian 6.0 and I use wicd to > manage networks.
I doubt you need hostapd itself, unless you want to turn the laptop into an AP. Most probably hostapd pulled some needed packages or reconfigured your card in a way to make it work also as a client. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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