I have a new install of Wheezy on a Dell Latitude D610. Everything "just worked" except wireless.
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03:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce 54g] 802.11a/b/g PCI Express Transceiver (rev 02)
I installed Debian 5.04. The Debian installer picked the Ethernet card but not the wireless (Atheros 9285). I followed these instructions to install it (found at [URL]...
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But there was no wireless interface shown in the network interfaces entry of hardinfo, even though I wrote modprobe ath_pci in terminal window. My questions are: 1. I followed the instructions regarding updating the madwifi sources, installing them etc. Does this guarantee that apt downloaded and installed the right madwifi driver? 2. Will I be better off if I try to install the driver downloaded from the Atheros website? 3. How can I activate the wireless interface (since the driver is running should not the wireless interface somehow show up automatically)? 4. When I am running Ubuntu 9.10 it picks up the wireless. Can I somehow copy all the files for the wireless from Ubuntu and paste them in the Debian filesystem?
After updating and subsequently restarting today, I can no longer bring up my wireless interface:
ifup wlan0
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132
Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132
Failed to bring up wlan0
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID: off/any
Mode: Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr: off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
lsmod | grep iwl
iwl3945 77904 0
iwlcore 127432 1 iwl3945
mac80211 180929 2 iwl3945, iwlcore
cfg80211 142905 3 iwl3945, iwlcore, mac80211
I tried installing the driver following the instructions in the link given below.
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But now also its now working either. After installing the outputs are given below.
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i am wanting to turn my Debian box into a wireless AP, but for some unknown reason the wireless card won't switch into master mode when i run the command #iwconfig wlan1 mode master i get this Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06): SET failed on device wlan1 ; Invalid argument. what does this mean and what do i need to configure/install to get it to work my wirless card is supported i checked it's a zydas chipset using the zd1211rw driver SMC EZ Connect SMCWUSB-G [URL]
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root's password:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
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peter@Peter-Server~$: route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
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iwconfig for a RT2870 wireless USB 802.11n adapter (made by Panda Wifi). Let me step you
through what's I've done thus far.
After plugging the device in, it's low-level identification is as follows (see bold):
root@xps720# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:0b06 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870 Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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Here is an output from iwconfig on my system:
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*-network:0 DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
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linux-1f6k:/home/rajbanul # dmesg | grep firmware
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