big problem with TP-LINK WiFi card
Hi to Everyone,
On the Desktop of my association, there was no wireless card. So, I
purchased one that is said to be Debian compatible. It is a PCI card
TP-LINK
TL-WN751ND
It is supposedly based on an Atheros chipset AR 9227
I plugged it inside the Central Unit on a PCI slot, and then booted the
Debian Squeeze system.
As a rather pleasant surprise, the wireless system was being
acknowledged immediately, and I could display a list of wireless
networks available in my area, amongst which I saw my own DSL wireless
network on which I have been able to connect any other laptop or desktop
computer that ever came to my house. I clicked to that Network on the
list, and then entered all the digits of my WPA password. This being
done, I got the message that I was connected and that the connexion was
allright. Well, then I launched Firefox (I mean Iceweasel) and called
for a web page... As soon as the connexion to that page was achieved,
THE SYSTEM FROZE and I could do nothing more... The mouse was no longer
active, same for the keyboard or anything else, CTRL-ALT-DEL did
nothing, and I had no other choice than disconnecting power. At reboot,
the freezing did appear right away, in the process of gnome launching.
Same at each new attempt.
I first thought that the chipset may have been faulty or damaged. So I
tested it under MSWIN (XP) since I have a dual boot on that desktop.
Under MSWIN, after the appropriate install with the provided CDROM, the
TL-WN751ND card did operate all right. After the password was typed,
connexion happened and operated without freezing the system or any other
trouble. So, it is most likely that the hardware is not faulty here.
I understand that I should probably have first checked if my Debian
Squeeze system was ready with the appropriate packages to run that
wireless chipset, instead of right away trusting the fact that it seemed
to be reckognized 'out of the box'. However, now that things are that
way, I wonder what files I should delete (booting from a rescue disk
maybe), so that I am able to de-install or install whatever is needed to
get that chipset working.
Thanks in advance for your help
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