Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-06 Thread Brian
On Wed 06 May 2015 at 14:24:23 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > > >wlan0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:c0:ca:72:68:d4 > > > > This also does not happen here. > > Nor here. > > > The OP's system has failed to get an > > IP address on the wlan0 inte

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > On Tue 05 May 2015 at 22:02:42 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Charles Kroeger (ckro...@frankensteinface.com): > > > > > > root@mundo:/home/charles# ifconfig -a > > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:21:4f:60:49 > > > inet ad

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 05 May 2015 at 22:02:42 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Charles Kroeger (ckro...@frankensteinface.com): > > > > root@mundo:/home/charles# ifconfig -a > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:21:4f:60:49 > > inet addr:192.168.0.102 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread David Wright
Quoting Charles Kroeger (ckro...@frankensteinface.com): > > root@mundo:/home/charles# ifconfig -a > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:21:4f:60:49 > inet addr:192.168.0.102 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::21b:21ff:fe4f:6049/64 Scope:Link

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 06 May 2015 01:10:02 +0200 Brian wrote: > Please post the outputs of > > ifconfig -a > > and > > lsmod | grep ath root@mundo:/home/charles# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:21:4f:60:49 inet addr:192.168.0.102 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.2

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread Brian
On Tue 05 May 2015 at 17:10:31 -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Tue, 05 May 2015 21:30:02 +0200 > Brian wrote: > > > You could try > > > > ifconfig wlan0 up > > > > to activate the interface before following the remainder of the advice > > given. > > I tried that but it complained about

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread David Wright
Quoting Charles Kroeger (ckro...@frankensteinface.com): > On Tue, 05 May 2015 21:30:02 +0200 > Brian wrote: > > > You could try > > > > ifconfig wlan0 up > > > > to activate the interface before following the remainder of the advice > > given. > > I tried that but it complained about not be

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 05 May 2015 22:30:02 +0200 David Wright wrote: > Perhaps I wasn't clear! > > iwconfig and ifconfig are programs that you run. Because /sbin isn't > in the user's $PATH, you need to prefix with the pathname. I get this from #ifconfig root@mundo:/home/charles# ifconfig eth0 Link enc

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 05 May 2015 21:30:02 +0200 Brian wrote: > You could try > > ifconfig wlan0 up > > to activate the interface before following the remainder of the advice > given. I tried that but it complained about not being able to find wlan0 -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread David Wright
Quoting Charles Kroeger (ckro...@frankensteinface.com): > On Tue, 05 May 2015 15:10:02 +0200 > David Wright wrote: > > > What do /sbin/iwconfig and /sbin/ifconfig show? > > ^?ELF^B [...] Perhaps I wasn't clear! iwconfig and ifconfig are programs that you run. Because /sbin isn't in the user's

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 05 May 2015 15:10:02 +0200 David Wright wrote: > What do /sbin/iwconfig and /sbin/ifconfig show? ^?ELF^B^A^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^B^@>^@^A^@^@^@\^Y@^@^@^@^@^@@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@Xb^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@@^@8^@ ^@@^@^\^@^[^@^F^@^@^@^E^@^@^@@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@@^@@^@^@^@^@^@@^@@^@^@^@^@^@ø^A^@^@^@^@^@^@ø^

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread Brian
On Tue 05 May 2015 at 14:49:18 -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Tue, 05 May 2015 12:10:02 +0200 > Brian wrote: > > > The non-free firmware-atheros package has the firmware for the adapter. > > I have the 'firmware-atheros' package installed. I take it that's the free > non-working version of

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 05 May 2015 12:10:02 +0200 Brian wrote: > The non-free firmware-atheros package has the firmware for the adapter. I have the 'firmware-atheros' package installed. I take it that's the free non-working version of the non-free package I have non-free sources in my sources.list wonder why

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread David Wright
Quoting Charles Kroeger (ckro...@frankensteinface.com): > On Tue, 05 May 2015 04:00:02 +0200 > David Wright wrote: > > > Does dmesg | grep -i firmware show the firmware being loaded? > > root@mundo:/home/charles# dmesg | grep -i firmware[1.400040] platform > microcode: firmware: agent lo

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread Brian
On Mon 04 May 2015 at 19:39:33 -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > After using this adapter for a few months (18 months ago) I committed out all > my > wireless lines in /etc/network/interfaces and stopped using it because it kept > breaking the connection at odd times. > > I have to take a trip and

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-04 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 05 May 2015 03:10:01 +0200 James wrote: > What is the output from sudo lsusb? root@mundo:/home/charles# lsusb Bus 007 Device 003: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n that's it there David Wright ask: >Do you use anything like wicd to manage the connection, ie brin

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-04 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 05 May 2015 04:00:02 +0200 David Wright wrote: > Does dmesg | grep -i firmware show the firmware being loaded? root@mundo:/home/charles# dmesg | grep -i firmware[1.400040] platform microcode: firmware: agent loaded amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin into memry[ 25.257358] usb 7-2: ath

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Charles Kroeger (ckro...@frankensteinface.com): > After using this adapter for a few months (18 months ago) I committed out all > my > wireless lines in /etc/network/interfaces and stopped using it because it kept > breaking the connection at odd times. Do you use anything like wicd to ma

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-04 Thread James
On 05/04/2015 07:39 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: After using this adapter for a few months (18 months ago) I committed out all my wireless lines in /etc/network/interfaces and stopped using it because it kept breaking the connection at odd times. I have to take a trip and this computer goes with