Re: wireless network interface in Debian
Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:
Thanks I am certainly getting there , after installing the
firmware....to /lib/firmware
the ipw2200 module loaded successfully and then i did this:
Hmm .. didn't know the firmware needs to be installed in Debian. Thanks
for the info. But what I would have tried was this:
#> apt-get install ipw2200-source
#> module-assistant auto-install ipw2200
This should have worked.
iwconfig eth2 essid "Network_620" key ABCD1234
when i run iwconfig i see this
eth2 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Network_620"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:12:17:CD:5A:29
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:ABCD-1234- Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=96/100 Signal level=-30 dBm Noise level=-82 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:1
this is my first day with Debian , and i dont know how to check if i
have these packages
> wireless-tools, network-manager (and its corresponding -gnome or -kde
> package as well, depending on which desktop you use), dhcp3-client,
> dhcp3-common.
Use this command:
$> dpkg -l <package name>
to see if it is installed. The lines of the list of resulting packags
that start with "ii" are installed. For example:
~# dpkg -l wireless-tools
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-============================-============================-========================================================================
ii wireless-tools 28-1 Tools for
manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions
and whats the corresponding one for GNOME ( my desktop Environment),
It is network-manager-gnome. You may want to try to list packages
starting with network- like this:
$> dpkg -l network-*
but i think i atleast need the dhcp3 packages to get a network
address for my wireless interface and i should be good, how do i
install/check these packages
You need dhcp-client. Check if it is installed. If not, to install it do
this (as root):
#> apt-get update
#> apt-get install dhcp-client
So, to install a package named "foo", just use:
#> apt-get install foo
GL,
->HS
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