Re: HP laptop

To: Robert Domby <rdomby@yahoo.com>
Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: HP laptop
From: Geoff Simmons <gsimmons@gsimmons.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 02:35:11 +1000
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 908327.3097.qm@web81108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <[🔎] 908327.3097.qm@web81108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi Robert,

On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 08:42:03AM -0700, Robert Domby wrote:
> I recently bought a HP laptop model G60=243CL and installed Debian 5 on it.
[snip]
> the wireless does not work. The wireless device is not even detected.

AFAICT, your laptop model contains an Atheros 802.11n PCI-E chipset (168C:002A)
[1].  Support for these chipsets was not included in mainline kernels until
2.6.27-rc3.  The kernel supplied in Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 is 2.6.26.

> How do I go about fixing.

You are required to install and use a later kernel version for support of your
wireless LAN device.  See http://wiki.debian.org/ath9k for further information.

Geoff

[1] http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/HP/G60-243CL

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