On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 21:40:03 +0900, David Riggs wrote: > Thanks to help from the list I am most of the way through getting the > iwp2200 wireless chip on my Thinkpad R50e to work. Upgraded my > Sarge/Stable to 2.6 kernel and installed everything but: > > But I cannot get the ieee80211 package to come in via apt. I have the > testing sources (tried various sites) but that package never appears. It > is listed on the web directory of packages as testing/net and unstable net. > > Is there something different about this package? Like not being just for > one architecture? Anyway, any help much appreciated.
The package is called ieee80211-source and is available for all architectures. I am on Sid and the module is included in my kernel now, but this is what I remember from building it separately for older kernels: apt-get install ipw2200-source ieee80211-source cd /usr/src tar -xzvf ieee80211-source.tar.gz tar -xzvf ipw2200-source.tar.gz module-assistant a-i ieee80211 ipw2200 modprobe ipw2200 iwconfig I would expect that this works for you, too, if you have the correct entries for a testing repository in your /etc/apt/sources.list. For reference, these are my "testing" lines: deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
