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 :-)

[tags]debian,wireless,firmware[/tags]

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