On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:09:26PM -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Hello, > > A few hours ago, I have installed Debian Testing on a friend's laptop. > The laptop came with Windows XP, and we agreed to make a dual boot of > both. Most things work in Debian. There are a few problems, but by far > the biggest and most important is the fact that it does not work at > *all* with wireless networks. Unfortunately, neither I nor him know > almost anything about the computer. We know that it has an AMD > processor, and that's about it. > Probably not Intel Centrino then :( > > I know that it is really difficult to help not knowing even what > wireless card he has, but could someone at least point me in the right > direction? I suspect that a driver and/or kernel module is not > installed or is not being started. > Boot Knoppix / Ubuntu live CD - see what they report. dmesg | less will capture some of the stuff that scrolls off the screen as the machine is booting. lspci - then google for ID's.
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