Hi all,
Thanks for all of your help. I got things working.
Using lspci I was able to see that in fact I needed a BroadCom
driver. I used a wired connection to apt-get bcm43xx-fwcutter. (I'm
using kernel 2.6.18-6-powerpc).
Then modprobe bcm43xx, then I checked iwconfig and finally `ifconfig
eth2 up`. Basically after a while I was able to follow the directions
on wiki.debian.org:
http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx
One last thing: I tried to apt-get a newer kernel version, and I
successfully installed 2.6.24 (apt-get install linux-image-2.6.24-
etchnhalf.l-powerpc linux-headers-2.6.24-etchnhalf.l-powerpc), but
when I logged out and back in, uname -r told me that I was still
running 2.6.18-6. How can I update to the kernel that should've been
installed?
Thanks!
On Jan 31, 2009, at 12:31 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:42:10 -0500
Christopher Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all, just installed Etch on my PowerBook G4. I can't activate the
wireless. My /etc/network/interfaces looks like
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid (my network name)
When I try to connect with wifi-radar, I just get errors ("Interface
doesn't support scanning : No such device"). Any advice for a
newbie?
Chris Jones
[email protected]
Which version of the PowerBook is it? This would help identify which
wireless card is built in. Also, try running the following command.
This lists all the network interfaces installed/detected and paste the
output here.
$ lshw -class network
If you don't have lshw installed you can install it from aptitude
(sudo
aptitude install lshw).
Amit
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