Re: Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Perry
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:30:11 +0100, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Thank you for your reply. > > I do not quite understand. First of all, am I right in saying that the > "auto eth0" line means that eth0 (wired, I presume) is the one that > the laptop tries to log on to first? Also, what exactly is the ge

Re: Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad

2006-01-22 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Thank you for your reply. I do not quite understand. First of all, am I right in saying that the "auto eth0" line means that eth0 (wired, I presume) is the one that the laptop tries to log on to first? Also, what exactly is the generic syntax for the other wireless ones? Thirdly, is there a progr

Re: Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Perry
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:20:40 +0100, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Hello, > > I just ordered an IBM Thinkpad A21e. It has a (wired) LAN card, and 2 > PCMCI slots, but no wireless card. It also comes with Windows 2000 (a > bug which will soon be squashed). > > Anyways, as I am going to be using this lapto

Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad

2006-01-22 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, I just ordered an IBM Thinkpad A21e. It has a (wired) LAN card, and 2 PCMCI slots, but no wireless card. It also comes with Windows 2000 (a bug which will soon be squashed). Anyways, as I am going to be using this laptop with Wi-Fi, I decided to just buy a wireless card seperately. I have