I avoid WiFi like the plage if I possibly can but since I want to carry this eeePc around and use other people's network connections I really need to get WiFo working.
I have gone through the steps outlined at the following:- http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Wifi
I.e. I have used the Debian backports to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.30 and have installed the other bits and pieces suggested plus wicd.
However when I run wicd (the wicd-client that is) it just says "No wireless networks detected". There definitely is a wireless network running here as my 'phone can detect it.
So how can I progress this at all? I've done a few rather fruitless Google searches and haven't found much pitched at my level of knowledge apart from the link above. The wireless on the eeePc used to work with the original Linux installation (why did I replace that you may ask - I'm wondering too, though it was getting a very tight fit in the limited memory).
Any ideas or pointers to useful web pages would be much appreciated.
Hi,
On 9 June 2010 16:25, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
Any ideas or pointers to useful web pages would be much appreciated.
Thank you for that long bit of English prose.
dmesg? lspci? what hardware is it? iwconfig output?
Srdjan
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:32:07PM +0100, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Hi,
On 9 June 2010 16:25, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
Any ideas or pointers to useful web pages would be much appreciated.
Thank you for that long bit of English prose.
dmesg? lspci? what hardware is it?
Er, I thought I said that, it's an eeePc 701
iwconfig output?
As regards the other things I'm really expecting/hoping for a 'higher level' approach before digging around at that sort of level. I.e. I was hoping that *maybe* someone has a HowTo for doing this and/or there might be something 'obvious' I've forgotten.
I'm quite happy to provide dmesg output and such but I don't think I'm quite at that level of digging about yet.
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 05:20:17PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:32:07PM +0100, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Hi,
On 9 June 2010 16:25, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
Any ideas or pointers to useful web pages would be much appreciated.
Thank you for that long bit of English prose.
dmesg? lspci? what hardware is it?
Er, I thought I said that, it's an eeePc 701
iwconfig output?
As regards the other things I'm really expecting/hoping for a 'higher level' approach before digging around at that sort of level. I.e. I was hoping that *maybe* someone has a HowTo for doing this and/or there might be something 'obvious' I've forgotten.
I'm quite happy to provide dmesg output and such but I don't think I'm quite at that level of digging about yet.
... and a message off list has taken me in the right direction and got me working. It was to the effect that eeebuntu produced working WiFi so I've installed Ubuntu 9.10 server and then xfce4 (there's not enough space to install xubuntu). Result, WiFi works.
I'm sure it can be made to work with Debian (Ubuntu is based on Debian!) but I was after a more hassle free approach to the problem.
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Chris G -
Srdjan Todorovic