Re: squeeze on desktop with Atheros wifi - not accessing wifi

2011-11-04 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Tuesday 01 November 2011 12:39:15 Sian Mountbatten wrote: I have installed Debian squeeze on /dev/sda1, but the kernel does not pick up the Atheros wlan0 wifi card. Can you give the output of lspci, ifcinfig and iwconfig? Thierry Problem solved by installing

Re: squeeze on desktop with Atheros wifi - not accessing wifi

2011-11-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:14:23 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:20:02 +0100, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:39:15 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: I have installed Debian squeeze on /dev/sda1, but the kernel does not pick up the Atheros wlan0 wifi card. What

squeeze on desktop with Atheros wifi - not accessing wifi

2011-11-01 Thread Sian Mountbatten
I have installed Debian squeeze on /dev/sda1, but the kernel does not pick up the Atheros wlan0 wifi card. Ubuntu 11.10 with a 3.0.0-12-generic kernel picks up the wifi, identifies the default wifi network, asks for a password and then it opens the wifi network. It would seem that the squeeze

Re: squeeze on desktop with Atheros wifi - not accessing wifi

2011-11-01 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 01 November 2011 12:39:15 Sian Mountbatten wrote: I have installed Debian squeeze on /dev/sda1, but the kernel does not pick up the Atheros wlan0 wifi card. Can you give the output of lspci, ifcinfig and iwconfig? Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: squeeze on desktop with Atheros wifi - not accessing wifi

2011-11-01 Thread Andrew Wood
Im not famailair with Atheros cards but a lot of WiFi cards dont have the binary firmware on them, it has to be loaded by the driver each time. Because the firmware is closed source Debian doesnt include it by default anymore. You will need to download the relevant .deb package from

Re: squeeze on desktop with Atheros wifi - not accessing wifi

2011-11-01 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:39:15 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: I have installed Debian squeeze on /dev/sda1, but the kernel does not pick up the Atheros wlan0 wifi card. What you mean by pick up? That the card not detected by the system (lspci or lsusb will tell) or that is not configured (see

Re: squeeze on desktop with Atheros wifi - not accessing wifi

2011-11-01 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:20:02 +0100, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:39:15 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: I have installed Debian squeeze on /dev/sda1, but the kernel does not pick up the Atheros wlan0 wifi card. What you mean by pick up? It does not recognise the card. I used to