Re: Wireless still not working (was:Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee)
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:31:24 -0400 (EDT), Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> 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?
I must admit I am disturbed by the fact that lspci shows the card under
Ubuntu but not under Debian. My first thought is missing firmware. But what?
Is there any evidence under /var/log/syslog or in dmesg that it is requesting
any firmware?
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