RE: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions) [Solved]

It appears that particular chipset is not supported by the b43 open-source driver. You have three alternatives: 1. Use the vendor-provided, non-open-source Linux driver. See http://wiki.debian.org/wl 2. Use ndiswrapper. This lets you use the Windows driver in Linux. See

Re: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions) [Solved]

Ogya Chief wrote: It appears that particular chipset is not supported by the b43 open-source driver. You have three alternatives: 1. Use the vendor-provided, non-open-source Linux driver. See http://wiki.debian.org/wl 2. Use ndiswrapper. This lets you use the Windows driver in Linux. See

Re: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions)

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Robert Holtzmanhol...@cox.net wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, thirstyh2o wrote: On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:57:07 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, thirstyh2o wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:56:51 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote:

RE: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions)

I do not know why the messages of my last two posts were deleted. I wrote that after installing b43-fwcutter and extracting the firmware the wireless card still did not work. It was suggested that I configure it but I did not understand what the specific configuration the writer was

Re: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions)

Ogya Chief wrote: I wrote that after installing b43-fwcutter and extracting the firmware the wireless card still did not work. It was suggested that I configure it but I did not understand what the specific configuration the writer was referring to.

RE: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/default.aspx Is the firmware being loaded to the card correctly? Try something like $ grep firmware /var/log/syslog And look for messages that might indicate failure. -- Kevin grep wl_apsta /var/log/syslog did not give any output.

Re: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions)

Ogya Chief wrote: Is the firmware being loaded to the card correctly? Try something like $ grep firmware /var/log/syslog And look for messages that might indicate failure. -- Kevin grep wl_apsta /var/log/syslog did not give any output. However, dmesg gave the following error message: