Michael Bützer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm an end-user (not particularly techie) of a Debian (Woody) Inspirion > laptop, Kernel 2.4.18. I recently bought a Proxim wireless card a/b/g, > but can't get it to run. With iwconfig I get the following message: > > lo no wireless extensions. > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > I believe that I would have to add something in > /etc/network/interfaces, but am not sure about it.
It's probably a little more complicated than that. I think there's only one 802.11a chipset out there (made by Atheros), and so you need to build the (non-free) drivers at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/ against whatever kernel you have installed. The README file has instructions for building it, and for checking that you do in fact have an Atheros-based card; you'll need an appropriate kernel-headers or kernel-source package installed to make it actually go. Having done this, you'll need to add a stanza to your /etc/network/interfaces file for an 'ath0' device. See interfaces(5) and the ifupdown documentation, if you don't already have an 'eth0' stanza you can copy/adapt. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
