Etch netinstall and linksys wpc11 v3?
Hi, lastnight I replaced a hard drive in my old Thinkpad 770z. I booted up a netinstall CD for testing 'Etch' that I burned last week.
The install went smoothly (except it couldn't find grub, so I installed lilo) The netinstall found my wireless lan card, a Linksys wpc11 v3. and it used it to access my internet and it successfully downloaded all the files it needed from ftp.debian.org. So, I know the card works with this version of 'Etch'. However, upon rebooting my laptop and logging in, I find that the card isn't working. What happened? How did the install program use my card and then not set the configuration properly for the reboot? BTW, Before my hard drive went, I had installed debian stable (Sarge I think) from the stable netinstall CD and it worked all around. So I'm not sure what's different with Etch as far as the wireless goes. Does anyone out there have Etch running on a laptop with a linksys wpc11 v3 card? Thanks! Jim EDIT: I just found a similar post: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi....php?p=2469521 |
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I figured it out. I did some google searches, and found the name of the driver for my card: orinoco_cs. So at first I thought maybe the driver didn't get installed. But apt-get showed it was already installed. So, at that point I had to assume that the problem was someplace else. The only other place to look was /etc/network/interfaces. It turns out that Etch didn't write out the /etc/network/interfaces file correctly. Oh, it had a section for my eth0, all filled in with my key and essid, but it left out one line: auto eth0 Once I added this line the card started working. Jim |
i couldnt fix it with auto eth0
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Can you post your /etc/network/interfaces? |
auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp wireless-essid linksys wireless-mode managed |
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Here's what I have: Code:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system |
yes i have the same /etc/network/interfaces but it doesnt works, it should work because during netinstall it went all right. Any other idea?
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