Re : Make WiFi work.
hI,
Your card seems to be a pci-e one. According to this page
http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x#Drivers
I think you should upgrade your linux kernel to some version > 3.0.0 since support for your wireless card has started with kernel 3.0.0~rc1-1~experimental.1.
To do so, you must install a fresher kernel than the one shipped with Debian Squeeze, which seems to be 2.6.32-5:
Add the following 7 lines in /etc/apt/sources.list to gain access to the Debian testing (which will become Debian 7 "Wheezy") and unstable packages:
## Debian Wheezy 7.0 / testing:
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
## Debian unstable:
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
then, update aptitude data base as root:
aptitude update
or prefix it with sudo:
sudo aptitude update
then install the unstable kernel (seems to be linux-image-3.1.0-1-amd64 as of today) and the realtek firmware:
aptitude install linux-image-3.1.0-1-amd64 firmware-realtek
aptitude might ask you to upgrade libc6 and a few other packages as well, this is normal. When it' done, reboot and choose to boot (something like) "Debian GNU/Linux kernel 3.1.0-1". I think this is all you need to do.
Hope it does it!
Nicolas
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> De : Paul Isambert <zappathustra@free.fr>
>À : debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Envoyé le : Mardi 22 Novembre 2011 15h29
>Objet : Make WiFi work.
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>Hello,
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>I've just installed Debian next to Windows 7, with the first DVD (i.e. debian-6.0.3-amd64-DVD-1.iso). It was not without trouble, but now it works.
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>The problem is the wifi. My card (Realtek RTL8191SE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC, says Windows) is apparently not recognized. I've tried various solutions explained here and there, I have installed firmware-realtek and ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant and I don't know what, nothing worked.
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>The hard part is that I have to switch to Windows to get an internet connection, gather info and material, restart with Debian, try, fail, switch to Windows again, an so on and so forth. Plus those stuff I'm instructed to do, modprobe, iwconfig, you name it ... are ancient Greek to me, so I apply them blindly, and perhaps what I've done before has gotten in the way, etc. So I'm a bit tired, but I really would like to switch to Debian -- and have an internet connection to find online documentation and start learning how to use it.
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>So: is there a simple solution to make the card mentionned above work? By "simple", I mean that if something must be done, it should be explained thoroughly (and not alluded to with "check X with Y"); I'm a complete newbie, so assume absolutely no prior knowledge.
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>Best,
>Paul
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