Re: squeeze on desktop with Atheros wifi - not accessing wifi

[Andrew Wood <a.j.w@me.com>]

Im not famailair with Atheros cards but a lot of WiFi cards dont have 
the binary firmware on them, it has to be loaded by the driver each 
time. Because the firmware is closed source Debian doesnt include it by 
default anymore.

You will need to download the relevant .deb package from 
http://packages.debian.org  copy to the machine on a USB stick or 
something and then (as root) install it with dpkg -i packagename.deb

im sure someone here who has experience with Atheros chipsets will 
enlighten us as to the actual package name.




On 01/11/11 11:39, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> I have installed Debian squeeze on /dev/sda1, but the kernel does not
> pick up the Atheros wlan0 wifi card.
>
> Ubuntu 11.10 with a 3.0.0-12-generic kernel picks up the wifi, identifies
> the default wifi network, asks for a password and then it opens the
> wifi network.
>
> It would seem that the squeeze kernel is broken with respect to wifi.
>
> Anybody any ideas for getting wifi working on squeeze?