I have an older Toshiba, and I had to use the Madwifi driver to make it work. In addition I had to install the kernel source and kernel headers for the right kernel in order to compile the driver. It also seems that whenever the kernel is upgraded -- as it was with the recent upgrade with Etch, the process has to be repeated.
I just had to do it again in fact. There have also been some issues with the Gnome network daemon that I don't understand completely, but to make it work I had to comment out some things in the file the network manager creates. I can find the specific steps that I took if you need them, let me know. Richard On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 13:07 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote: > well, they were sold out of the a215-s5808 so she went with this unit > (A205-S5809). installing Debian was quick and far easier than i had > imagined (given recent snags with the HP). Seriously, this was one of > the easiest laptop installs i have ever done... and did i mention quick? > > other than the modem (which i don't have a way to test) I need to get > the wireless going. it uses a Realtek driver and i haven't been able to > pinpoint which one i need nor a great linux candidate. i am not opposed > to using ndiswrapper, but i need to know which driver to install. > > can anyone help with this? so far dmesg doesn't show any wlan devices > and i _really_ need this part to work for her. > > thanks again. > Preston > > -- > Arrant Drivel - really, it's just trash... > http://www.arrantdrivel.com/ > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
