Aurelien Jarno wrote:
Debian BTS a écrit :
My Edimax EW-7108pcg PCMCIA wifi card (rt2500 driver) works perfectly in
my constantly upgraded version of Etch (Testing). I installed the rt2500
driver some weeks ago. The same driver, built in the same way (with
Module Assistant), will not work in a fresh install of Etch in a new
partition on the same machine (Thinkpad T20).
In both cases I built the rt2500 module from the rt2500-source package
using module assistant. The resulting modules package is the same
on each system:
rt2500-modules-2.6.17-2-686 version 1.1.0+cvs20060620-3+2.6.17-9
The probelm seems to lie in the file
/etc/Wireless/RT2500STA/RT2500STA.dat.
The older working install contains the line 'AuthMode=OPEN', but this is
'AuthMode=SHARED' in the broken fresh install.
I can get the card to work either by modifying
/etc/Wireless/RT2500STA/RT2500STA.dat with a text editor (setting
AuthMode to OPEN), or by adding these lines to /etc/network/interfaces:
Where does this file come from? It is installed by the rt2500 package if
you want to manage the wireless card using the X interface.
If you want to manage the wireless card with iwconfig, you don't need
this file. It is not provided by the rt2500-modules-... package but by
the rt2500 package. I guess you have installed it and then removed it
without purging it. Could you please send me the output of "dpkg -l
rt2500" ?
Bye,
Aurelien
Thanks Aurelien.
The output of "dpkg -l rt2500" is
pn rt2500 <none> (no description available)
Does this mean that I have installed rt2500 at some stage and then
purged it? I don't remember doing so, but it could be so. I am happy to
delete the partition and reinstall Etch from scratch if that would
settle the issue.
--
Chris.
