Debian (desktop) doesn't even recognize internal HP wireless card
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Debian (desktop) doesn't even recognize internal HP wireless card
I recently bought an HP Pavillion which came with an internal HP 802.11 b/g Wireless Network Adapter. Windows recognizes it and is able to use it, so there's nothing wrong with the card itself.
Running iwconfig lists:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 is my firewire port, and eth1 is the wired ethernet.
Any advice in helping me set this network card up in Debian Etch would be greatly appreciated!
To help you get started we're going to need a lot more information. HP Pavilion doesn't tell us much. Is it a Desktop, Laptop? What is the exact model.
The key information is determining what chipset is being used by the internal wireless LAN. If your Documentation tells you that, it would be great. Maybe it will show up on the output of "$ lspci" The easiest way might be to look in the Windows hardware identifying program. I forget the name of it. ... or if you can even figure out exactly what driver Windows is using for the card, that may be helpful.
Atheros cards generally use MadWifi drivers. I have never messed with those drivers, but lots of people use them. I'll tell you what I would do to get started, and hopefully someone will come along to help you with any additional tweaking necessary. I use aptitude from the command line for package management. If you have been using apt-get or Synaptic, you should probably translate these commands to that.
First , you need contrib and non-free in your sources.list file. There should be a line that looks something like this:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
That should get everything you need to make it work installed on your system. but as I said, There may be additional tweaking required to actually get it working.
Well, I tried to compile madwifi from source to see if that would help, but now modprobe ath_pci just gives:
WARNING: Error inserting ath_rate_sample (/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/net/ath_rate_sample.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
FATAL: Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/net/ath_pci.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
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