Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-28 Thread tom arnall
the b43 module was the answer for at least most of the broadcom wireless devices. HOWEVER the system out of the debian wheezy box seems to want to make 'wl' the wireless module. wrong for broadcom chips. but it's not enough to simply let the b43 installer do its thing. you must also blacklist wl.

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-26 Thread tom arnall
BTW, I DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE ANY OF THE B43 STUFF ON MY SYSTEM: root@debian:/home/tom# apt-get install firmware-b43-installer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: b43-fwcutter The following NEW pack

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-26 Thread tom arnall
DID IT: SAME RESULT. SYS CAN'T SEE WIRELESS: Root@debian:/home/tom/system# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:23:2f:f3:8f inet addr:192.168.0.14 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21c:23ff:fe2f:f38f/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCA

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-26 Thread Mike McGinn
Hmm, Thought about it. Typed: adrastea ~ 26 $ apt-cache search tigon firmware-linux-nonfree - Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel Have you installed the non-free firmware? If not please do so and start again from: m-a a-i broadcom-sta Mike On Monday, May 26, 2014 19:45:24 t

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-26 Thread tom arnall
@ Mike McGinn I COPIED AND PASTED YOUR CODE INTO A BASH FILE AND RAN IT. THE INSTALL MESSAGES SEEMED OK, EXCEPT THIS AT THE VERY END: Update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso5.bin for module tg3 W: Possible missing firmw

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-26 Thread Mike McGinn
I have a Broadcomm4310. I did this and it works. It is too damn bad if you don't like the top post. BEGIN CODE aptitude update aptitude install module-assistant wireless-tools m-a a-i broadcom-sta echo blacklist brcm80211 >> /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf update-initramfs -u -k $(uname -

can't get wicd to work

2014-05-25 Thread tom arnall
I poked around a bit more at the Debian wiki and some other places and found out about Broadcom wireless devices and that they have problems. Here is what I did about it and the results. I'm using all caps for my remarks to keep them apart from the rest of the text. (My card works. I checked it wi

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 05:48:28PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 19/05/2014 15:55, Patrick Wiseman a écrit : > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Hans wrote: > >>> What am I doing wrong? > >> I got this problem, when I had network-manager installed, too. It looked > >> for > >> me, like they do

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-19 Thread Erwan David
Le 19/05/2014 15:55, Patrick Wiseman a écrit : > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Hans wrote: >>> What am I doing wrong? >> I got this problem, when I had network-manager installed, too. It looked for >> me, like they do not want exist together. I have no explanantion for it, but >> deinstalling a

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-19 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Hans wrote: > >> What am I doing wrong? > > I got this problem, when I had network-manager installed, too. It looked for > me, like they do not want exist together. I have no explanantion for it, but > deinstalling and purging all network-manager packages fixed the

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-19 Thread Hans
> What am I doing wrong? I got this problem, when I had network-manager installed, too. It looked for me, like they do not want exist together. I have no explanantion for it, but deinstalling and purging all network-manager packages fixed the problem. On the other hand, network-manager is now

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le 18/05/2014 23:25, tom arnall a écrit : [...] > root@debian:/home/tom# iwconfig > lono wireless extensions. > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any > Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm [...] Tx-Power=0 suggests that radio is turned off You could tr

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 18 May 2014 22:25:43 tom arnall wrote: > root@debian:/home/tom# ifconfig What does ifconfig -a give? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/

can't get wicd to work

2014-05-18 Thread tom arnall
I'm trying to get my wifi set up under wheezy using wicd. I've followed all the instructions at: https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#Wicd When I do ~/$ wicd-client -n I get: "No wireless networks found." The following is the output from the session: (My username is 'tom'.) ~/$ cat /etc/ne