On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 09:57:50AM +0200, Tobi wrote: > I have a hard time getting the WLAN working on my HP8510p.
Had that, too. On my IBM X60. Works perfect now with 2.6.24 and 2.6.25. I'm running stock-kernels only, right now, because i'm to lazy to compile on my own. > > The notebook is running with Lenny and kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64. I've also > tried the 2.6.26 from Ubuntu and 2.6.25 without success. Only 2.6.24 > works, but not very stable. You should probably not use kernels, as well as a lot of the core- packages from Ubuntu. Might hurt your system badly ;) > > With 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 I can immediately see all wlans in range (with > 2.6.24 this could take 5-10 minutes), so scanning works fine. > [..] > WEP and WAP2 don't work either. I can only get a connection to a > completely unsecure WLAN. I essentially got everything to work very nicely using WICD: http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ Which manages all my networks now. Sadly, there's no maintained Debian package (at least in unstable..) You should try it :) And don't forget to setup the NICs correctly, you will probably need WEXT as WPA-Driver. Regards, Heiko -- Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: prov. "There is always one more bug." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
