> > > I am have a Toshiba Satelite LD300 laptop with the AR5001 wifi card. I > > > installed Sueeze on it and the two things that I cannot get to work are > > > the > > > wireless card > > ...snip... > > > > Thanks Sebi for you reply. > > Unfortunately, madwifi-(source|tools|modules) are not in the testing > repositories. > In the absence of them what are my options. Backports? I see that they are in > etch > and lenny. Do I have to downgrade my installation in order to get it working? >
No there's no need to downgrade the whole system. You could go for apt-pinning, which essentially means that you'll fetch the package-lists from various releases (testing, stable, unstable) and configure apt to "prefer" one of them so that when you install/upgrade it automagically choses the distro you prefer but you'll see all the available packages in your synaptics/aptitude/apt-get-lists. This is achieved by: 1. add the relevant repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list (e.g. add the "stable" or "lenny" repositories, also make sure you have the non-free branches included as that's where the madwifi-* packages reside), then change the file /etc/apt/preferences (create it if it doesn't exist yet) to something like this: a...@hexbrex:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 650 the above entries basically tell apt-get & Co. to prefer the testing versions of any package over the stable ones (the higher "Pin-Priorities" are the preferred ones). But it'll be able to "see" all the packages from all the releases included in your sources.list. Then run 'apt-get update' or 'aptitude update' or whatever other way you use to update your package-cache. Now you should be able to install madwifi et al. There's also a bit of configuration to be done in /etc/modprobe.d/madwifi, uncomment the line: blacklist ath5k and comment out all the lines below ## madwifi (non-free) Hope that helps > > > > Also I think there might be different AR5001-Chipsets, as: > > a...@hexbrex:~$ lspci |grep -i ath > > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 > > Wireless Network Adapter (rev 04) > > > The output of lspci |grep -i ath is the following: > 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 > Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) > I hope the differences between the revisions aren't too big - I assume the native linux ath*-drivers probably won't work for you either. Or did anybody have much luck going down that route? I'd much prefer to be using free drivers if possible. Good Luck Sebi -- Four thousand different MAGNATES, MOGULS & NABOBS are romping in my gothic solarium!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org