On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 03:39:20PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > >>Paul > >What happend if you do: > > I have done these many times but I recently got and compiled a > driver from Realtek (from Wayne's suggestion). It isn't named > rtl8185 but r8185b. I thought I had tested that well enough and > that it wasn't working, > > >ifconfig wlanx up > >iwconfig wlanx essid "your_essid" > >dhclient wlanx > > These now work on my temporarily unsecured home network! > > Now on to secured networks.
A few minutes with man and I am now connected to a secured network. wicd seems to work now that I am connected already. I don't know why it didn't work before and I don't know whether it will work if I shut down the card. Thanks for everyone's help up to here, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110131013052.ga5...@bliss.tc.ph.cox.net
