Re: Wireless still not working (was:Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee)

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

From: Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>

> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:04:58 -0400 (EDT), Marc Shapiro wrote:
>> The difference being the lack of the Realtek network adaptor under Debian.
>> That is certainly where the problem lies.  Why would Debian not detect the
>> adaptor at all?
>
>Perhaps this link will be useful to you: 
>   http://wiki.debian.org/rtl818x

I had already installed wireless-tools, which did not automatically load the module, but I did that myself.  The problem appears to be that, instead of providing wlan0 as the wireless device, this creates pan0, which I did not look for.  Running iwconfig showed me this.  If I run:

   ifconfig pan0 up

then I get no errors and

   ifconfig

shows the interface.  Unfortunately, it DOES NOT turn my radio on and wicd, of course, shows no wireless networks.

I am really at a loss here.  Are there any other ideas, or suggestions that I can try?

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Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com