Re: Inspiron b120 wireless

2008-03-07 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:01:49 -0500
jack martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 As a new Debian user I am having a major problem connecting my dell Inspiron
 b120 wirelessly to the internet, I have spent hours on this but there must
 be a (restricted) driver package I can use to help with this. (something
 similar to that in Ubuntu) or an approved way to do a terminal install of
 that bcm43xx-fwcutter so necessary for us b120 people.
 Best regards

What's the chipset (appropriate excerpt of 'lspci')?  Which Debian
release?  b43 is the new Broadcom driver, included from kernel 2.6.24;
it's far superior to bcm43xx (the strongly held opinion of the
bcm43xx / b43 devs).  In general, you need to provide much more
information on your setup.  What works?  What doesn't?  What errors do
you get?

Celejar
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Re: Inspiron b120 wireless

2008-03-07 Thread Preston Boyington

Celejar wrote:
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What's the chipset (appropriate excerpt of 'lspci')?...


If nothing shows with 'lspci' then also try 'lsusb'.  I have found that 
some cards show up as a USB device (Realtek nics on some Toshiba laptops 
comes to mind).


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