Hello friends!

So I've had a Thinkpad 760xd for a while. I put Debian on it. If I could just get on the internet I would never have another problem for as long as I live.

uname -r
2.2.20

I tried to upgrade to a higher kernel but I couldn't find a .deb file after I compiled.

ifconfig

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:390 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:390 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:19660 (19.1 KiB) TX bytes:19660 (19.1 KiB)

sbin/cardctl ident

Socket 0:
product info: "Interseil", "ISL3890", "-", "-"
manfid: 0x000b, 0x3890
function: 254 ((null))
PCI id: 0x1260, 0x3886

My card is a 2wire 802.11g card. I think it is a prism54 chipset but I'm not sure of that even. If there is any other information you need let me know. I am a desperate young man. Thank you.

This may or may not apply to Debian or to your problem, but hopefully this will be of help to you. When installing SuSE 9.2 on my brother's notebook, the wireless card was recognized and configured, but internet only worked through ethernet. There were two things wrong, which we fixed, and now it works just fine.

1) He didn't have his password/authentication mode properly setup (I'd check that first).

2) There was an option set on install that always deferred internet to the ethernet card, regardless of whether or not it was connected to the network. The fix is decribed here: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/1...cp_client.html

Be sure to apply the instructions for both wireless and wired connections, then restart the network or restart the computer. I hope this is what you are looking for. Can't hurt, in any case.

Does the Wireless card On/Off button work?
Let me know since I am thinking on migrating to Suse.

Regards,
Teo