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Re: wifi gone AWOL in Etch



On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 17:38:21 +0000, Ernest Humpoletz wrote:
> wifi (for broadband Internet) worked briefly on my Etch (and the
> double booted Windows XP Prof) and soon vanished from Etch. My
> attempts to revive it have failed abominably.
> 
> Machine is DELL INSPIRON 6400 laptop, with Intel 3945 ABG  v 10.1.0.13
> Network controller found by lspci (as is Broadcom Corp BCM-4401-B0
> ethernet device)
> 
> lsmod finds 'intel agp' and 'eth 1394'  (plus the usual many I don't
> recognise AT ALL).

Does it list "ipw3945"?

> The DSL-Router device is Zycom P660HW-T1 which continues to work OK on
> ethernet and wifi for the Windows OS
> 
> My great  problem is that I do not seem able to find out  what to do
> to make iwconfig able to recognise the ZyXEL device and do its stuff!
> I am obviously missing the preliminary stages.

Post the full output of "iwconfig". (You can of course replace sensitive
data, e.g. listed WEP keys, with generic placeholders.)

> It would seem that Etch did all the preliminaries originally, ready to
> spring to life as soon as I removed the ethernet cable after doing the
> ZyXEL initial settings.

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