Re: where is my WiFi card? (ThinkPad T61)
On 2014-06-06 14:39, Jack Wilborn wrote:
> I guess that's funny, I configure my wifi in the interfaces file... Oh
> well... I know I had lots of problems with configuring of my wireless
> interfaces mostly because they were proprietary chip sets. I guess you
> are loading a 'blob', the term used for the extracted firmware of the
> manufacturers software.
>
> The 'wireless-tools' package is the best to interface with as the 'iw'
> commands are very useful. I will try and dig my notes up with the
> commands that I used and post them for you..
>
> It seems like you should be able to at least figure out where the wifi
> is connected, i.e. usb or pci buss, I bet on the pci buss as it's faster
> I believe...
>
> Jack
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Stanisław Findeisen
> <stf.list.debian.user@eisenbits.com
> <mailto:stf.list.debian.user@eisenbits.com>> wrote:
>
> On 2014-06-05 23:08, Jack Wilborn wrote:
> > Might be that the wireless is 'wlan0' instead. Might want to look at
> > your config files to see it it's being used. The items you are using
> > (like 'lsusb', I assume you used 'lspci -vv' or something like
> that) are
> > tools that read all ports, and usually the wifi stuff is located on a
> > psi connection (does not have to be)..
> >
> > What installation stuff did you do? (like 'wireless-tools') that
> should
> > give you some indication of if it's working. Plus I think the 'lo' is
> > the local loopback.
> >
> > Jack
>
> According to the wiki:
> https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#NetworkManager , when using
> NetworkManager, the wireless interface should not be referenced within
> Debian's /etc/network/interfaces file.
>
> So I didn't take any configuration steps, besides installing (aptitude)
> the packages:
>
> firmware-iwlwifi (non-free)
> network-manager
> network-manager-gnome
> network-manager-kde
> wireless-tools
> wpasupplicant
>
> and their dependencies.
>
> I am using KDE. It says that network-manager-kde:
> https://packages.debian.org/stable/network-manager-kde is a dummy
> package, and that network-manager-gnome:
> https://packages.debian.org/stable/network-manager-gnome works in KDE
> too. But I can't see a systray applet anywhere, unless I run nm-applet
> from the command line.
>
> I also disabled openvpn on startup (I think it was installed as one of
> the dependencies).
>
> openvpn 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off
> 6:off
I'm sorry, but it was simply disabled in the BIOS config. :)
The reason I couldn't find the right configuration switch was that it
was in Security -> I/O Port Access, instead of Config -> Network.
This + a proper stanza in /etc/network/interfaces solved the issue. No
NetworkManager needed.
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