Thanks Brian.
>>> Let's first check what the chipset is. Please post the output of the
>>> command 'lspci', or the line referring to the device in the machine
>>> which deals with wireless, You could also say how you are trying to
>>> get WiFI working.
The output of lspci is at the bottom of the post. Looks like
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE
802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)
is the piece that deals with wifi. After seeing this, I
installed firmware-realtek_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb; however the indicator
light for the wifi is still not on. The closest to this device that I can
find in /var/log/messages is
Sep 14 12:41:27 t430s kernel: [ 6.050043] rtl8192ce 0000:03:00.0: PCI
INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Sep 14 12:41:27 t430s kernel: [ 6.233937] rtl8192ce 0000:03:00.0: PCI
INT A disabled
But I don't know whether that is relevant or something completely different.
I've been kind of assuming that once the indicator light comes on, I will
then be able to configure the wireless using one of the network tools
included with gnome or kde. That has always worked for me before.
Thanks again for the help.
--Len
0:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0154 (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 0166 (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e31 (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e3a (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network
Connection (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e2d (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 1e20 (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e10 (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e12 (rev c4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e14 (rev c4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e18 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e26 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1e55 (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 1e03 (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 1e22 (rev 04)
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE
802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)
