Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-09-24 19:39 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:Thanks, Sven, installing *firmware-b43-installer* does the trick, because the wireless light on the laptop lights and 'wlist wlan0 scan' produces results. But why would wicd-gtk still show 'no wireless networks found'?Don't know, it worked for me when I last tried. Are you a member of the netdev group? Note that wicd has severe problems with hidden SSID¹. Sven ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565483
But wicd works on this laptop in the lenny partition, just not in the sid partition. What I don't get is that 'iwlist wlan0 scan' lists the wireless stations found and wicd which uses iwlist can't find them.
I am a member of netdev. Hugo