Package: cdrom Severity: important
I have installed both Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) and 5.0(Lenny). In both cases, the install "seemed" to go okay, and I was able to boot the resulting system from a partition on my hard drive. I am able to connect to the internet on the current system, but only through a LAN cable; the wireless will not configure. I know all my hardware is working connectly, because if the same machine has booted Windows 7, wireless interconnectivity is no problem at the same location. When I installed the current 5.x system, the cable-interconnect was up, so needed packages could be downloaded. Not wishing to file a bug report until I was certain, I first perused the AMD64 install manual, and founnd the Dell L501 listed as needing package firmware-iwlwifi to be instlled.So I then went to the "Loading Missing Firmware" section, which I gound to be useless. Finally, I was able to load a file entitled Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 and WiFi Link 4965 devices, which appeared to have instructions for loading firmware update code. I followed the instruction EXACTLY: to /etc/apt/sources.list, I added: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main cont Then I executed the command: aptitude update && aptitude install firmware-iwlwifi Then I executed the command iwconfig Are received a "not supported" response. >From the messages that scrolled by, it looks like the "aptitude update.." step went okay. I DID notice that your examples were truncated in your documentation ("main cont" was printed as "main con" and "firmware-iwlwifi" printed as "firmware-iwlwi". This was the main "bug" because it cost me a lot of useless wasted time, but even after everything seemed to work, I did not achieve a working wireless laptop (at least in Debian). Could you have someone who knows something advise me ? It's inexcusable that such a common need as getting wireless to work an a Dell/Intel laptop is such a painful journey. Thank you for your attention. Sincerely, James S. Koford (408) 499-4611 -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.9 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
