Re: Installing a Wireless Card
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:30 PM, <ray@aarden.us> wrote:
> I would like some help in completing the installation with a wireless pcmia
> card.
> I just installed 502 from CDs on a Dell laptop. I did not have the Belkin
> wireless pcmcia card (HSM model no. F5D7011. Chipset BCM4306/BCM2050) in
> place during the installation. Now I would like to get the wireless card
> working. After reading the installation guide and several help pages, it
> seems to be getting somewhere but not there yet. The session is below. I
> have added some comments as <comment>.
>
> debian session:
> su -
> <then enter root pswrd>
> /sbin/modprobe b43 <loads module for wireless card>
> 'there was no response
> /sbin/lspci -vnn|grep14e4 <I don't know what this is for>
Why did you type it? Look at the man page for 'lspci' to see what it's
for. I don't know what '14e4' is.
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller ... gigabit ...
> 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corp BCM4306 ... [14e4:4320]
> (rev 3)
> /sbin/iwconfig <displays current configurations?>
> lo no wireless extensions.
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
> wmaster no wireless extensions.
> wlan0 IEEE802.11 ESSID:""
> ...
> link quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
> /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 <display info about the wireless card>
> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr <the correct MAC address>
> BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> <the rest were all zeroes>
> /sbin/ifconfig up <Turn on the wireless card radio?>
> up: error fetching interface information: Device not found
> /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 up <Turn on the wireless card radio?>
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
man ifconfig
>
> I would appreciate all comments.
>
What is in your /etc/network/interfaces? Have you configed the card to
go get an IP address?
http://www.debian-administration.org/article/An_introduction_to_Debian_networking_setup
http://wiki.debian.org/Network
> Thank you,
> ray
>
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