Re: Filing a bug report via Windows?
The Wednesday 30 January 2013 18:24:06, Thierry Chatelet wrote :
> The Wednesday 30 January 2013 16:03:51, Jack Wilborn wrote :
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a bug that needs to be reported, unfortunately I only have
a
> > Windows 8 machine connected to the Internet. I originally tried to
> > use an older Mac G5 but became so frustrated with getting on-
line
>
> that
>
> > I finally purchased a complete 386 type machine to run Linux only.
> > The truth ended up that I couldn't get on-line with that machine
> > either. I have a Qualcomm Atheros AR938X chip-set on a TP-Link
> > TL-WDN4800 WiFi PCI card.
> >
> > When I install Debian 6.0 on my machine it does not detect this
>
> card,
>
> > but is detected when I run "lspci" from the command line within
>
> Debian
>
> > after the install. I don't know how to properly report this bug. I
> > picked this card because others have stated they run this card
>
> under
>
> > the same version of Debian and it works properly. I don't know
what
> > else to do but report a bug or how to manually install the proper
> > drivers to support this card. This would also make it possible to
> > connect to the Internet and solve many problems. As I have an
>
> iPhone
>
> > 4, that works properly via a USB port on Windows 8, causes a
Kernel
> > fault on the same machine under Linux with all the proper drivers.
> > Also the Atheros driver appears to be on my machine, but not
>
> loaded.
>
> > Any help would be wonderful.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jack K. Wilborn
>
> Have you installed firmware-linux-nonfree?
> Thierry
Also, which network manager are you using: wicd, network-nager...?
And what is the output of iwconfig?
Thierry
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