Re: Which WLAN driver to use?
Elias Diem, 15.05.2011:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 02:09:03PM +0100, Brian wrote:
>
> > On Thu 12 May 2011 at 14:20:43 +0200, Elias Diem wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I installed Debian 6 on my HP Pavilion Netbook. Unfortunately the
> > > WiFi Card is not working. I plan to install a driver manually but
> > > don't know which driver to grab.
> > >
> > > lspci -vv tells me
> > >
> > > 02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink Device 539f
> >
> > http://srikrishnadas.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/wi-fi-on-hp-dm1/
> >
> > might help.
>
> Thanks for the link. I was unable to do the procedure described there on my
> Debian 6. However I could install the driver on Ubuntu 10.04.
>
> Now I wonder what the problem might be. On Debian the graphical system crashed
> after logging in to the wireless network. I wasn't able to extract any
> information from the syslog. Does anybody know what the problem could be?
I just want to point out that there are two drivers for your hardware.
One is proprietary and the other is free software. The driver mentioned
at the link above is the proprietary driver from Ralink. You could try
contacting Ralink to get support for that driver.
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