No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread softwatt
I recently bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T440P. The wireless driver did work out of the box. It was not even recognized by the system. A quick search revealed I am not the only one with the issue. I later learned that the Wireless adapter requires a driver called RTL8192EE, which is not supported by

Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 19:01:59 +0300 softwatt softw...@gmx.com wrote: So, I cloned the repo, compiled and installed. Now, network-manager does detect the adapter, but it says device not managed. If i run `iwconfig` in a terminal, the device appears as managed. The device is not detected by

Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread softwatt
On 09/17/2014 07:09 PM, B wrote: By default, NM doesn't manage any I/F that is cited into /etc/network/interfaces; so you must either comment lines in this file or enable the management of these I/F into NM conf file. Thanks! It's working surprisingly well. I will test it before

Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread Brian
On Wed 17 Sep 2014 at 19:01:59 +0300, softwatt wrote: I recently bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T440P. The wireless driver did work out of the box. It was not even recognized by the system. A quick search revealed I am not the only one with the issue. I later learned that the Wireless adapter

Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread softwatt
On 09/17/2014 07:43 PM, Brian wrote: Resolve the situation of not having any functional WiFi? Purchase a USB device which does work with Debian. Normal working can then be easily achieved. I already do that. But some things have the so-called hacking value. I want to fix this for the sake of

Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread Brian
On Wed 17 Sep 2014 at 19:46:21 +0300, softwatt wrote: On 09/17/2014 07:43 PM, Brian wrote: Resolve the situation of not having any functional WiFi? Purchase a USB device which does work with Debian. Normal working can then be easily achieved. I already do that. But some things have the

Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread softwatt
That's also understandable, hardware is a pain in the neck. :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: No wireless support for RTL8192EE

2014-09-17 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:51:02 +0300 softwatt softw...@gmx.com wrote: That's also understandable, hardware is a pain in the neck. :) That's a bit overestimated, I remember those days when not adding the right switche(s) to a module left the HW as good as dead (especially TV cards, it was a real

Re: Wireless support

2010-03-15 Thread Omar Campagne
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:43:59PM -0400, Jacob Tennant wrote: Please describe what you are meaning about the b43/ssb modules or wl option as I don't understand what you are meaning.  I am running Debian without Gnome, KDE, etc...   Oops! :) The b43 module depends on the ssb module, that's why

Wireless support

2010-03-14 Thread Jacob Tennant
I have not used Debian in over 10 years so please excuse my newbie type qestions... Does Debian have driver support for the Braodcom 4311 chips in laptops wireless cards? I am tryng to setup a server type system for amateur radio using Xastir and tired of fighting with all of the GUI stuff, just

Re: Wireless support

2010-03-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-14 18:04, Jacob Tennant wrote: I have not used Debian in over 10 years so please excuse my newbie type qestions... Does Debian have driver support for the Braodcom 4311 chips in laptops wireless cards? According to Google (linux broadcom 4311), the relevant driver was added to

Re: Wireless support

2010-03-14 Thread Omar Campagne
Does Debian have driver support for the Braodcom 4311 chips in laptops wireless cards?   I own a laptop sold with a 4311 (yet lspci gives 4312). Anyway, you have the b43/ssb modules option with firmware, or the wl option, available with the packages broadcom-sta-common and

Re: Wireless support

2010-03-14 Thread Jacob Tennant
Please describe what you are meaning about the b43/ssb modules or wl option as I don't understand what you are meaning. I am running Debian without Gnome, KDE, etc... Jacob Tennant On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Omar Campagne ocampa...@gmail.com wrote: Does Debian have driver support for

Re: Wireless support

2010-03-14 Thread Jacob Tennant
I give up, I HAVE TO HAVE A DESKTOP!!! Installing KDE as we speak... On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Jacob Tennant k8jwtenn...@gmail.comwrote: Please describe what you are meaning about the b43/ssb modules or wl option as I don't understand what you are meaning. I am running Debian without

Re: Wireless support

2010-03-14 Thread Celejar
[Please don't top post.] On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:43:59 -0400 Jacob Tennant k8jwtenn...@gmail.com wrote: Please describe what you are meaning about the b43/ssb modules or wl option as I don't understand what you are meaning. I am running Debian without Gnome, KDE, etc...

Re: NetworkManager and XFCE for wireless support

2008-01-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Don't top post and keep replies to the list. I've reorganized your post. On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:19:51AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:13:35PM -0800, Eduardo B. V. Pereira wrote: I would like to know if there

Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Simonelli
I tried the new Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop and it was able to detect and install the Linksys Realtek 8180 drivers for my wireless b card right off the bat. Despite a well polished Gnome Desktop, I still preferred Debian and decided to use Debian Etch since the release is only a few months away (I

Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday August 17, 2006 10:14 am, Anthony Simonelli wrote: I tried the new Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop and it was able to detect and install the Linksys Realtek 8180 drivers for my wireless b card right off the bat. Despite a well polished Gnome Desktop, I still preferred Debian and decided

Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Margiolas Christos
but the winmodem driver is not open source software so it's against to the debian policyChristos

Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Anthony Simonelli
That's what I'm trying to figure out. Are the closed-source drivers for these devices compiled into Ubuntu or FreeSpire's kernels? If so, how is it done? How does Ubuntu get away with using them in their Kernel and yet remain free without any EULA? I know that (Lin)FreeSpire require you to

Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 17 August 2006 20:59, Anthony Simonelli wrote: That's what I'm trying to figure out. Are the closed-source drivers for these devices compiled into Ubuntu or FreeSpire's kernels? If so, how is it done? How does Ubuntu get away with using them in their Kernel and yet remain free

Re: Built-In Wireless support

2006-08-17 Thread Arafangion
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 22:40 +0300, Margiolas Christos wrote: but the winmodem driver is not open source software so it's against to the debian policy Christos Ubuntu is also particularly pedantic in this regard. You may be able to use the Ubuntu kernel packages on the debian