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 -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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