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I've freshly installed debian 8 jessie on my machine. The problem is I cannot get a wireless connection after all. The network card is a D-Link DWL-G520 (rev. b3).
lspci -vv shows
Code:
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212/AR5213 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc AirPlus DWL-G520 Wireless PCI Adapter (rev. B)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx+
Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
Region 0: Memory at de500000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
and ifconfig shows
Code:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:11:95:bb:38:3a
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metrik:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Nevertheless the interface doesn't show any network I could connect to.
I'd be very thankful for any assistance!
I'm not good with the wireless stuff except I recall when I did run Debian I had to install the driver for my chipset (Realtek) and wireless-tools in order for my wifi to work. Post the output of lspci so someone can have a look at the info. about the chipset.
-::-Best to wait for a member that is good with the wireless.-::-
In the meantime here are some helpful links to learn from.
According to the Debian Wiki for Ath5k, your device is specifically unsupported by the Ath5k driver, and may require you to use the windows driver via ndiswrapper. I've never used one of this chipset to say for certain this is still accurate.
Your right its on the Debian wiki under "PCI devices".
The module/driver for that is already in use by the kernel for your wired connection; if I'm not mistaken.
Code:
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
The wired connection may work if you have a ethernet cable handy?
Your right its on the Debian wiki under "PCI devices".
The module/driver for that is already in use by the kernel for your wired connection; if I'm not mistaken.
Code:
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
The wired connection may work if you have a ethernet cable handy?
Wired connection is working just fine, but it uses the igb driver:
REMEMBER I'm not the best with the wireless stuff. However I'm giving it my best. (trying)
Maybe Timothy Miller will know:-
Thanks for that, I've been working on this for a few days now, had the same issue on ubuntu 16.04.. Few years ago on ubuntu 13.10 the card worked like a charm (as descripted everywhere in the web)
One question, what are you using to configure wireless? Are you using a network manager (network-mangager, wicd), or are you using the standard network files?
One question, what are you using to configure wireless? Are you using a network manager (network-mangager, wicd), or are you using the standard network files?
It's the very standard debian system, I didn't install anything except for build-essential. Though I've noticed "network-manager-gnome" is preinstalled but not sure how to use that.
OK...so you're trying to use the /etc/network/interfaces, wpasupplicant, iwlist?
I really don't know what a "standard" debian install is, since I've only done netinstalls in the last 6 or so years, so it's been a LONG time since I've seen whats in a default install.
Have you brought your interface up before scanning for ssid's?
Alternatively, if you have network-manager installed (which you do, if you have the gui installed), it's probably taking management of the wireless for itself, you could try running nmtui to configure it using network-manager. Or the network-manager frontend in the gui (which is network-manager-gnome).
Last edited by Timothy Miller; 06-08-2016 at 05:49 PM.
It's only the packages from the first dvd-iso of version 8.4.0.
I use the gnome manager in the gui like you said and I've attached two pngs of what they show me. 1. is when I go to Settings > Network and 2. is when I click on "Choose wireless network" in the bar of my desktop.
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