I hate to say this, but I am confused about how to configure wireless on my Wheezy laptop system.
I originally installed Wheezy from a weekly net install, which means that I had to add components I wanted. At one point I had the wireless working through trial and error configuring the /etc/network/interfaces file for my home wireless. But now currently I am out-of-town with my laptop, so I want to setup Gnome to use an applet which will automatically scan available wireless networks that I can choose from, and prompt me for the security key when one is selected (if needed). This is the normal setup I see on other people's laptops, and is the default when I boot from a Knoppix cd, for instance. But I can't seem to figure out which software packages I need to do this. I am downloading the deb packages on a different computer then transfering them via USB flashdrive to my laptop, then using dpkg -i to install them. Of course I have had to get all the package dependencies, which takes time. So far I have installed wireless-tools, network-manager, wpasupplicant, network-manager-gnome, and a bunch of lib dependiencies. But I don't have an network-manager-applet. When I look online for an applet I only find the source, not a binary deb package. I have read the wiki page on network-manager and the /usr/share/doc/wireless-tools/README.Debian, but they confuse me and seem to be for hard coding a particular wireless connection- not what I want. Can someone help explain to me how to do this and/or what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1ca239b43f5aae2457bcfba09373182a.squir...@webmail.strucktower.com
