Re: wifi configuration
Michael Bützer <butzer@uclink.berkeley.edu> writes:
> I'm an end-user (not particularly techie) of a Debian (Woody) Inspirion
> laptop, Kernel 2.4.18. I recently bought a Proxim wireless card a/b/g,
> but can't get it to run. With iwconfig I get the following message:
>
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> I believe that I would have to add something in
> /etc/network/interfaces, but am not sure about it.
It's probably a little more complicated than that. I think there's
only one 802.11a chipset out there (made by Atheros), and so you need
to build the (non-free) drivers at
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/ against whatever kernel
you have installed. The README file has instructions for building it,
and for checking that you do in fact have an Atheros-based card;
you'll need an appropriate kernel-headers or kernel-source package
installed to make it actually go.
Having done this, you'll need to add a stanza to your
/etc/network/interfaces file for an 'ath0' device. See interfaces(5)
and the ifupdown documentation, if you don't already have an 'eth0'
stanza you can copy/adapt.
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