Am 03.03.2013 um 22:20 schrieb Joe:
Network manager is not actually necessary to do anything, and until
recently it had a rather poor reputation, usually being known as
Notwork
Manager. It's quite big and overbearing, and has many plug-ins, for
OpenVPN, wi-fi, 3G dongles and other things.
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 06:49:34PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:23:49PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
From the directory that the deb is in:
dpkg -i wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb
If it complains that there are missing dependencies, curse, wish you had
used
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 10:17:11AM +, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 06:49:34PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:23:49PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
From the directory that the deb is in:
dpkg -i wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb
If it
I have not went through all the replies.
Regardless those questions, one basic question is that
What is your wireless card.
try $ lspci
If your laptop is not so new, basically it has very well support.
check the kernel support first. If none, then look for the further
solutions.
On Monday
On 04.03.2013 03:04, Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/3/3 4:34 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote:
-big snip-
Why do you think you need a special driver?
Please type /sbin/ifconfig -a in your terminal to check whether you
have wlan0 device or not in the list.
mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:14:32 -0500
Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2013/3/3 8:16 PM, Mr G wrote:
-snip-
$ id
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$ sudo updatedb
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$ mlocate firmware-iwlwfi.deb
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$ pwd
Look at the terminal session below
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Em 04-03-2013 05:39, Roman V.Leon. escreveu:
On 04.03.2013 03:04, Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/3/3 4:34 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote:
-big snip-
Why do you think you need a special driver?
Please type /sbin/ifconfig -a in your terminal to check whether you
have wlan0 device or not in the list.
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:23:49PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
From the directory that the deb is in:
dpkg -i wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb
If it complains that there are missing dependencies, curse, wish you had used
aptitude, and install them.
Get the dependencies the same way you got
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:53:37PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote:
My objective:
Install WiFi driver into Debian+LXDE so that I can connect to the Internet.
To be more exact, the wifi driver is installed so the kernel can talk to
the wireless hardware. IOW, the procedure is the same whether you have
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 07:06:13PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote:
I tried to install wicd.
[...]
I see that there are uninstalled dependencies:
wicd-daemon (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3)
wicd-gtk (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3)
wicd-curses (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3)
wicd-cli (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3)
My objective:
Install WiFi driver into Debian+LXDE so that I can connect to the Internet.
My problem:
All the help I can find covers installing packages over the Internet. But I
can't install packages over the Internet because I can't reach the Internet
until I've installed the driver (not
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:53:37 -0500
Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote:
My objective:
Install WiFi driver into Debian+LXDE so that I can connect to the
Internet.
My problem:
All the help I can find covers installing packages over the Internet.
But I can't install packages over
On 03.03.2013 23:53, Mark Filipak wrote:
My objective:
Install WiFi driver into Debian+LXDE so that I can connect to the Internet.
My problem:
All the help I can find covers installing packages over the Internet.
But I can't install packages over the Internet because I can't reach the
Internet
On 2013/3/3 4:20 PM, Joe wrote:
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:53:37 -0500
Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com wrote:
-snip-
BTW, before I go on, I already tried opening a file manager (in
Debian+LXDE) and simply double-clicking one of the .deb files.
Nothing happened.
There are packages which
On 2013/3/3 4:34 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote:
-big snip-
Why do you think you need a special driver?
Please type /sbin/ifconfig -a in your terminal to check whether you have
wlan0 device or not in the list.
mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ /sbin/ifconfig
-a
eth0
You need the firmware-iwlwifi package.
# dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi
will tell you if the package is installed. It probably wont be on the
install disk as it is the nonfree repository. You may have to adjust
/etc/apt/sources.list depending on how you answered the questions when you
installed.
And
On Sunday 03 March 2013 22:40:22 Mark Filipak wrote:
Comment: I submitted 'aptitude install wicd' because it was part of the
example I followed. Obviously, 'wicd' is not sufficient.
Why is it obviously not sufficient? I would have said that it was. But you
would need the right repositories
On 2013/3/3 6:10 PM, Mr G wrote:
You need the firmware-iwlwifi package.
# dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi
will tell you if the package is installed. It probably wont be on the
install disk as it is the nonfree repository. You may have to adjust
/etc/apt/sources.list depending on how you answered the
On 2013/3/3 6:10 PM, Mr G wrote:
You need the firmware-iwlwifi package.
# dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi
You mean this one:
firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb // Debian - WiFi Drivers
It's on my list.
Do I really install it with this:
dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi
or this:
dpkg -s
On 2013/3/3 6:48 PM, Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/3/3 6:10 PM, Mr G wrote:
You need the firmware-iwlwifi package.
# dpkg -s firmware-iwlwifi
You mean this one:
firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb // Debian - WiFi Drivers
It's on my list.
Do I really install it with this:
dpkg -s
I tried to install wicd.
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mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ dpkg -i
wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb
dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ su
Password:
No, dpkg -s just simply tells you if it is installed. If it's not then:
$ cd directory where firmware-iwlwifi.deb
is then:
$ sudo dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi.deb
or
# dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi.deb
There should have been one installed by default. If it is installed then
you can move onto the
Good. You found the problem.
Package `firmware-iwlwifi' is not installed and no info is available.
So now you need to get you and firmware-iwlwifi.deb in the same directory.
Really you don't -- but let's keep it simple ;)
If you don't know how do:
$ man cd
Once you and the package are
On 2013/3/3 7:22 PM, Mr G wrote:
Good. You found the problem.
Package `firmware-iwlwifi' is not installed and no info is available.
So now you need to get you and firmware-iwlwifi.deb in the same directory.
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mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ dpkg -s
On 2013/3/3 8:16 PM, Mr G wrote:
-snip-
$ id
-snip-
$ sudo updatedb
-snip-
$ mlocate firmware-iwlwfi.deb
-snip-
$ pwd
Look at the terminal session below
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mark@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages$ su
Password:
root@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/Setup/Debian 6.0.6
root@MarkFilipak:/media/usb8/S
etup/Debian 6.0.6 64-bit/Packages# dpkg -i
firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package firmware-iwlwifi.
(Reading database ... 68697 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking firmware-iwlwifi (from
Get the WiFi driver.
- Go to http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi and look for a link related to your WiFi
device.
My WiFi device is an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 and the link is labeled
'ipw3945'.
Yours will probably be different.
- Taking the device-related link takes you to the Debian Wiki page for
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