Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions
On 14 Sep 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I now have ATI and sound working but not wireless and I'm not the only
> > one. I've installed firmware-iwlwifi, which is supposed to work. After
>
> It took a while for ipw2200 to work right, I don't think iwlwifi is there
> yet (unless you're using 2.6.23-rc or something like that). You could try
> using the most up-to-date version possible of iwlwifi and mac80211
> backported for whatever kernel version you are using. Get it from
> http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi
>
> I had to keep up with the development versions of ipw2200 for a while before
> it was good enough that I'd care to update only to whatever made it to Linux
> mainline.
>
Thanks for this pointer. I had tried going back to the previous method
but that didn't work either. As I do have a wired connection I may use
that for the present until things improve.
I was wondering about ndiswrapper. Is that a possibility? I know nothing
about it.
Anthony
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