Hi, I've successfully (and surprisingly painlessly) installed debian (console only) on an old iBook G4.
The only persistent problem is having WPA wireless start up at boot time. I understand that there is no longer a wpa_supplicant init item, and that it is loaded via /etc/network/interfaces, but I haven't got the correct configuration in place. Part of the problem, I believe, is that I got confused about drivers, and ended up installing several drivers for my wireless card. Now I don't know which one I'm using, and don't know what to list for "wpa-driver" in my /etc/network/interfaces. I had to get one called b43-legacy (as per instructions here: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43) before it would work, but I don't know the proper name of that driver; ie whatever "wpa-driver" is expecting to see. Looking at the output of dmesg hasn't helped any. Right now my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf looks like this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=dialout network… --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- And that works correctly if I manually call wpa_supplicant from the command line, then run dhcpcd. My /etc/network/interfaces looks like this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- auto lo iface lo inet loopback allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto wlan0 inet dhcp iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-driver bcm43xx # my best guess, but still wrong wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Any clues much appreciated! Yours, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
