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Re: Wireless networking in Debian



On Vi, 24 feb 12, 09:44:31, George wrote:
> I have a Compaq CQ60 laptop running squeeze, and I have never gotten
> wireless networking to work. My chipset appears to be supported,
> however wicd never detects any networks in the area (even though there
> are several) and nm-tool reports "State: unavailable" for the network
> adapter.
> 
> I know that I'm not providing all the information, but I don't really
> know where to start.

dmesg | grep -i firmware

and look for missing firmware files. You can find the correct package 
with

apt-cache search <filename>

because firmware packages usually (always?) mention the filename in the 
description. You will need to enable non-free first.

Hope this helps,
Andrei
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