Re: HP laptop
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Jason Filippou<jason.filippou@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Robert Domby<rdomby@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I have benn using Debian 5 on my desktop since its release,& I love it.
>>
>> I recently bought a HP laptop model G60=243CL and installed Debian 5 on
>> it. It dual boots with Vista. Both systems work fine. My problem is on the
>> Debian the wireless does not work. The wireless device is not even
>> detected. How do I go about fixing.
>>
>> Robert S Domby Jr
>> rdomby@yahoo.com
>
> Hello
>
> I run Squeeze on my HP-Pavillion laptop and I, too, had trouble
> installing the gnome-network manager. Is that your problem as well? If
> yes you will probably have to fetch this package:
> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/network-manager-gnome from another
> computer that enjoys network access and install the package via dpkg.
> However, I've probably got some bad news for you, since you might have
> to fetch its dependencies likewise (dpkg informed me of all critical
> dependencies). That's what I had to do, at least.
>
> Hope all goes well,
>
> Jason
>
Let me just correct myself by saying that the package I linked you to
was the package for Squeeze, the relative Lenny package can be found
here:
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/network-manager-gnome
Cheers
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