> "ip l" (for "ip link") lists the network links the kernel is aware of.
$ ip l
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
> And to keep it simple, does your desktop (Gnome, the desktop environment by
> default in Debian?) show you an icon with wireless networks?
I use the KDE version of Debian. I will let you know what I got from
your suggestions
thanks
