Re: can't get wicd to work
@ Mike McGinn
I COPIED AND PASTED YOUR CODE INTO A BASH FILE AND RAN IT. THE INSTALL
MESSAGES SEEMED OK, EXCEPT THIS AT THE VERY END:
Update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso5.bin for module tg3
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso.bin for module tg3
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3.bin for module tg3
THE RESULT SEEMS NIL:
Root@debian:/home/tom/system# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:23:2f:f3:8f
inet addr:192.168.0.14 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21c:23ff:fe2f:f38f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1934 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1049826 (1.0 MiB) TX bytes:400101 (390.7 KiB)
Interrupt:17
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1915 (1.8 KiB) TX bytes:1915 (1.8 KiB)
root@debian:/home/tom/system# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
root@debian:/home/tom/system#
I CHECKED DMESG AND THE WIFI RELATED STUFF SEEMS THE SAME BEGINNING WITH:
[ 13.170160] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 13.170165] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 13.182091] wl 0000:0c:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 13.184710] wlan%d: 5.100.82.112 driver failed with code 21
[ 13.184737] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 13.184792] kernel BUG at
/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-4-common/include/net/cfg80211.h:2209!
[ 13.184848] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 13.184984] CPU 1
[ 13.185031] Modules linked in: wl(P+) i915(+) snd_hda_intel(+)
joydev snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep drm_kms_helper snd_pcm drm pcmcia
snd_page_alloc snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_timer lib80211 snd cfg80211
yenta_socket soundcore pcmcia_rsrc dell_laptop dell_wmi pcmcia_core
evdev sparse_keymap i2c_i801 dcdbas acpi_cpufreq iTCO_wdt
iTCO_vendor_support rfkill i2c_algo_bit battery ac psmouse serio_raw
coretemp i2c_core pcspkr mperf wmi power_supply video processor button
ext4 crc16 jbd2 mbcache sg sd_mod crc_t10dif sr_mod cdrom usbhid hid
thermal ata_generic thermal_sys uhci_hcd ehci_hcd ata_piix libata
firewire_ohci firewire_core crc_itu_t tg3 libphy scsi_mod usbcore
usb_common [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[ 13.188397]
I HAD TO RUN THE BASH SCRIPT TWICE BECAUSE AT WHAT SEEMED TOWARDS THE
END OF THE PROCESS I ACCIDENTALLY HIT CTL-F9 OR WHATEVER AND LOST THE
TERMINAL. SO I RAN THE SCRIPT AGAIN WITH STDIN AND STDERR REDIRECTED
TO A FILE. I CAN SEND THAT OUTPUT IF YOU THINK IT WORTHWHILE. THERE'S
A LOT OF JUNK CHARS IN IT, I GUESS BECAUSE PART OF THE INSTALL
MESSAGING USES SOME KIND OF HALF-BAKED GRAPHICAL. BUT THE MESSAGES
SEEM ALL TO BE IN THERE.
I'M NOT USING NETWORK-MANAGER:
Root@debian:/home/tom/system# apt-get purge netwng dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'network-manager' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
root@debian:/home/tom/system#
thanks btw to everyone who is helping me.
Tom
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