Le Mercredi 30 Novembre 2005 01:09, Leonid Grinberg a écrit : Hello,
since you still have "the other operating system", I would suggest that you use it in order to gather information about the hardware with the thing called "control panel" if i remember right... > 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. > > The wireless network is crucial. He uses the laptop both at home and > at school. At home, it is difficult for him to use a wired network > because of router positions, etc. At his school there is a free Wi-fi > connection which students can use, but he needs wireless to be working > for that as well. > > 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. > > Thank you, > > Leonid Grinberg > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
