setting up wireless in debian etch
I came home with my debian etch laptop only to see that wireless wasnt being detected :( and i hate staying near the telephone table .
Now ,here is how you can set it up for debian etch .
$lspci |grep Wireless
and it should return your wireless card name .If its Intel ProWireless then the below will work bang on for you .
first download the file form here http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=7
then do this
$tar -xvf ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz -C /lib/firmware
$mv /lib/firmware/ipw2200-fw-3.0/* /lib/firmware
and now just reboot :-) for it to get loaded in to the kernel ,alternatively you can load it with
$modprobe <drivername>
and once you have loaded either by reboot or modprobe
$iwconfig
and it should tell you the available interface for wirelss,eg eth2 in my case
now $iwlist eth2 scan and it should tell you the cell
and lastly
$sudo dhclient eth2
should set it up :-)
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Iam Theyagarajan S ( 'taggy') . to know more ,head out to
First of all, THANK YOU for “setting up wireless in debian etch”. This helped me make great strides since the ipw2200 website didnt get me too far, assuming I knew about other unmentioned things/steps.
what worked:
iwlist eth2 scan shows the 2 wireless connections here. One is open (no wep, open and free etc) and the one Im trying to connect to.
dhclient eth2 shows works, shows a dhcp requuest and renewal time, and address.
so I can see my wireless network, have made the dhcp connection, yet
what does NOT seem to work:
I can not seem to go anywhere or ping. I feel Im 99% there!
-I keep seeing examples of wireless using wlan and not eth should I be using wlan anywhere instead of eth2? even though eth2 found the wireless network? Im assuming eth2 is correct and not to use wlan anywhere.
You didnt mention /etc/network/interfaces . . .
-what should my /etc/network/interfaces look like now ?
-should I add something like
iface eth2 inet dhcp (I did but still I can go no where)
and what about the hosts file (DNS servers)?
Something somewhere is still missing.
thank you again, and any help you can offer is much appreciated.
~david