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Re: how to manually activate my broadcom wireless?



On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   i'm sitting in front of a lenny system which does not have either
> network-manager or network-manager-gnome installed on it, but i
> would dearly love to activate the broadcom wireless.
>
>   the installed broadcom firmware worked fine a while back when the
> manager packages were installed, and the appropriate modules are
> loaded (b43, etc.).  i can use "iwlist wlan0 scan" to see a number
> of visible, local networks, and "iwconfig wlan0" shows me that wlan0
> is currently associated with exactly the network i'm trying to
> associate with.
>
>   so, without network-manager-gnome, what's the cmd line to activate
> that wireless interface?  i've tried:
>
>   # ifconfig wlan0 up
>
> which simply returns but doesn't give me wireless.  any hints on the
> magic incantation?  thanks.

  never mind -- whether it was the best solution or not, i just
manually added the following to /etc/network/interfaces:

  auto wlan0
  iface wlan0 inet dhcp

after which i could manually activate the interface.

rday
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