On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 17:38:21 +0000, Ernest Humpoletz wrote: > wifi (for broadband Internet) worked briefly on my Etch (and the > double booted Windows XP Prof) and soon vanished from Etch. My > attempts to revive it have failed abominably. > > Machine is DELL INSPIRON 6400 laptop, with Intel 3945 ABG v 10.1.0.13 > Network controller found by lspci (as is Broadcom Corp BCM-4401-B0 > ethernet device) > > lsmod finds 'intel agp' and 'eth 1394' (plus the usual many I don't > recognise AT ALL).
Does it list "ipw3945"? > The DSL-Router device is Zycom P660HW-T1 which continues to work OK on > ethernet and wifi for the Windows OS > > My great problem is that I do not seem able to find out what to do > to make iwconfig able to recognise the ZyXEL device and do its stuff! > I am obviously missing the preliminary stages. Post the full output of "iwconfig". (You can of course replace sensitive data, e.g. listed WEP keys, with generic placeholders.) > It would seem that Etch did all the preliminaries originally, ready to > spring to life as soon as I removed the ethernet cable after doing the > ZyXEL initial settings. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
