Hi all,
Thanks for all of your help. I got things working.
Using lspci I was able to see that in fact I needed a BroadCom
driver. I used a wired connection to apt-get bcm43xx-fwcutter. (I'm
using kernel 2.6.18-6-powerpc).
Then modprobe bcm43xx, then I checked iwconfig and finally `ifconfig
eth2 up`. Basically after a while I was able to follow the directions
on wiki.debian.org:
http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx
One last thing: I tried to apt-get a newer kernel version, and I
successfully installed 2.6.24 (apt-get install linux-image-2.6.24-
etchnhalf.l-powerpc linux-headers-2.6.24-etchnhalf.l-powerpc), but
when I logged out and back in, uname -r told me that I was still
running 2.6.18-6. How can I update to the kernel that should've been
installed?
Thanks!
On Jan 31, 2009, at 12:31 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:42:10 -0500
Christopher Jones <c_jo...@mit.edu> wrote:
Hi all, just installed Etch on my PowerBook G4. I can't activate the
wireless. My /etc/network/interfaces looks like
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid (my network name)
When I try to connect with wifi-radar, I just get errors ("Interface
doesn't support scanning : No such device"). Any advice for a
newbie?
Chris Jones
c_jo...@mit.edu
Which version of the PowerBook is it? This would help identify which
wireless card is built in. Also, try running the following command.
This lists all the network interfaces installed/detected and paste the
output here.
$ lshw -class network
If you don't have lshw installed you can install it from aptitude
(sudo
aptitude install lshw).
Amit
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