Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 01. 11. 2009 19:31:50 je Foss User napisal(a): > > 5. Right clicked the network icon in gnome panel and selected Edit > Connections, went to Wireless tab and clicked Add. Entered SSID, > selected Mode as Infrastructure, left the BSSID field blank, copied > MAC address from the output of ifcon

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Foss User: > > I have a question to the experts though. In step 5 and 6, I had to > manually configure wlan0. However, I never had to do such > configuration for eth1 when I was using Ethernet. Why so? Because these settings (SSID, encryption) just don't apply to Ethernet. With wifi, you have a s

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Foss User
Thanks everyone. I got my WiFi up. Sharing the details here in case it helps someone in future. 1. aptitude update; aptitude install firmware-iwlwifi 2. modprobe -r iwl3945; modprobe iwl3945 (I am not sure whether step was required) But I got this message in /var/log/messages - ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Tebbit
Foss User wrote: > How is it that modinfo iwl3945 is giving me output when I don't have > the firmware installed? Because the driver has been included since around 2.6.24/26 but not the firmware. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Tebbit
Foss User wrote: > I just checked that I don't have the firmware-iwlwifi package > installed. I'll be installing it now. But without the firmware > package, why do I get an output for ifconfig wlan0? Is it because of > some other firmware package being installed? Can I verify this > somehow? I wi

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Foss User
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Foss User wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Tim Tebbit wrote: >> Foss User wrote: >> > Please help me to get wireless working with Debian (recentmost Squeeze). What is the output of ifconfig wlan0? >>> >>> # ifconfig wlan0 >>> wlan0     Link

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Foss User
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Foss User wrote: > Please help me to get wireless working with Debian (recentmost Squeeze). >>> What is the output of ifconfig wlan0? >>> >> >> # ifconfig wlan0 >> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1f:3c:6b:d5:62 >>           BROADCA

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Tebbit
Foss User wrote: >>> Please help me to get wireless working with Debian (recentmost Squeeze). >> What is the output of ifconfig wlan0? >> > > # ifconfig wlan0 > wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:3c:6b:d5:62 > BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 err

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Foss User
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Foss User wrote: >> I am using Squeeze. I run aptitude update; aptitude full-upgrade every >> day. I want to connect my laptop to the Wi-Fi I've setup in my home. I >> am able to connect to it using Windows but not usi

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Foss User wrote: > I am using Squeeze. I run aptitude update; aptitude full-upgrade every > day. I want to connect my laptop to the Wi-Fi I've setup in my home. I > am able to connect to it using Windows but not using Debian. I know > the SSID and WPA2-PSK key I hav

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Tebbit
Foss User wrote: > I am using Squeeze. I run aptitude update; aptitude full-upgrade every > day. I want to connect my laptop to the Wi-Fi I've setup in my home. I > am able to connect to it using Windows but not using Debian. I know > the SSID and WPA2-PSK key I have set. Channel of the router is s