Recently installed Debian on my laptop, but no luck getting wifi card to work.
I have a belkin F5D8011 ver1000 and i cant seemt to get it to work. I havent really tried anything because i dont know where to begin. Ive tried researching it via google but nothing seems to come up, plus all of the HCLs i have checked for similar distrobutions never seem to tell me much. All help is greatly appreciated.
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Since you've not given any details about what you have actually tried, I'm taking a bit of a wild guess here, but it could be that your wireless may need some non-free binary firmware. Debian has packges for these but they are not included with the installer.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stabl...h06s04.html.en If you can post the out of Code:
lspci | grep -E 'Ether|Net' Cheers, Evo2. |
Code:
thomas@deb-laptop:~$ lspci | grep -E 'Ether|Net' |
Thanks for the quick response by the way.
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Ok, as far as I know that wireless chip uses the ath9k driver, and does not need any firmware. First you should check that the module is installed:
Code:
lsmod | grep ath9k Code:
modprobe ath9k Now please post the output of the following two commands Code:
/sbin/ifconfig -a Evo2. |
Code:
deb-laptop:/home/thomas# modprobe ath9k |
Ok, it seems that kernel that comes with Debian Lenny is too old and does not contain that driver. The good news is that a newer kernel with the driver has been backported to lenny. Please try to follow the instructions on the following page, and report back to let me know how you went.
http://wiki.debian.org/ath9k Cheers, Evo2. |
okay im having a problem completeing the steps you mentioned
i added the deb backports repository to the sources.list then attempted the aptitude update command and get an error. Code:
deb-laptop:/home/thomas# aptitude update Code:
# aptitude -t lenny-backports install linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.2-$(uname -r | sed 's,.*-,,g') wireless-tools |
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uname -r Code:
apt-cache search linux-image-2.6.30 Evo2. |
or just use Synaptic and look under "origin" then right click and install the 2.6.30 kernel from the backports.org repo.
While aptitude works great sometimes using Synaptic can make things a bit simpler. |
That did it! im connected thanks for everything sir!
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Cool. Enjoy.
Evo2. |
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