Re: wi-fi connection and wicd

2012-10-11 Thread steef
On 10-10-12 18:29, Lisi wrote: I have a newly installed Debian 6.0.6 on my netbook. I cannot get wi-fi going. I have checked the wi-fi card itself by booting a Live DVD. It connects fine on Ubuntu 12.04. I have run various tests with the following results: root@Cronos:/home/lisi# iwconfig lo

Re: wi-fi connection and wicd

2012-10-11 Thread simNIX
Hello, For me on squeeze all works fine. When I add wicd (after I did a remove and purge of network-manager) then the final step to do to get wifi going is setting in gui part wicd which wireless card to use - for me wlan0. Als during install setup asks me what user should be added to netdev

Re: wi-fi connection and wicd

2012-10-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Oct 2012 at 17:29:13 +0100, Lisi wrote: [Some selective snipping done] > I have a newly installed Debian 6.0.6 on my netbook. I cannot get wi-fi > going. I have checked the wi-fi card itself by booting a Live DVD. It > connects fine on Ubuntu 12.04. Using a Debian Live CD would ha

Re: wi-fi connection and wicd

2012-10-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Lisi, > > What kernel version are you running? > > 2.6.32-5-686 > > Thanks for your reply, > Lisi there is also another bugreport by me from earlier times. But I guess, this reason might be in older kernels, too. At the moment I am running kernek 3.5 from experimental with no errors at all

Re: wi-fi connection and wicd

2012-10-10 Thread Lisi
Hi, Hans! On Wednesday 10 October 2012 17:35:56 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > When I try to connect I get the message that no wireless connection is > > available. There are in fact 7 within easy wireless reach, one of them > > my own, and my wireless router is currently about 9 inches away from the

Re: wi-fi connection and wicd

2012-10-10 Thread Luiz L. Marins
Please, see here: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/all/firmware-linux-nonfree/download and here: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/ Good Luck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: wi-fi connection and wicd

2012-10-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> When I try to connect I get the message that no wireless connection is > available. There are in fact 7 within easy wireless reach, one of them my > own, and my wireless router is currently about 9 inches away from the > netbook on the same desk. > > Where do I go next?? > > Thanks, > Lisi H