Bug#220966: Inspiron 8500: b44, iwconfig,
* Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org> [2003-11-15 17:29]:
> Output of lspci:
> makapuu:~# lspci
> 02:03.0 Network controller: BROADCOM Corporation: Unknown device 4324 (rev 02)
Can you please paste the output of lspci -n.
> 2.4.22-1-386 (herbert@gondolin) #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003
> kernel did not have a b44 module for the network - or at least it
> was not automatically detected, and I didn't know anything about
The daily builds and the next beta will have the b44 module, although
it might not be automatically loaded on your machine.
> Alas, d-i does not seem to have iwconfig around, so I was unable
Right, there's a wishlist bug (#214491) asking for a tool to configure
the wireless network.
> So I built my own kernel, which I like to do anyways, and did it
> with XFS filesystem support. It would be really nice for d-i to
> provide XFS from the start.
XFS will probably be supported when a new kernel comes out which has
XFS support.
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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