Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: Nevermind, it's wext, same as everyone else's…
Sorry for the noise, E > Hi, > > I've successfully (and surprisingly painlessly) installed debian > (console only) on an old iBook G4. > > The only persistent problem is having WPA wireless start up at boot time. I > understand that there is no longer a wpa_supplicant init item, and that > it is loaded via /etc/network/interfaces, but I haven't got the correct > configuration in place. > > Part of the problem, I believe, is that I got confused about drivers, > and ended up installing several drivers for my wireless card. Now I > don't know which one I'm using, and don't know what to list for > "wpa-driver" in my /etc/network/interfaces. I had to get one called > b43-legacy (as per instructions here: > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43) before it would work, but > I don't know the proper name of that driver; ie whatever "wpa-driver" is > expecting to see. Looking at the output of dmesg hasn't helped any. > > Right now my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf looks like this: > > ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant > ctrl_interface_group=dialout > > network… > > And that works correctly if I manually call wpa_supplicant from the > command line, then run dhcpcd. My /etc/network/interfaces looks like > this: > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > auto wlan0 inet dhcp > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > wpa-driver bcm43xx # my best guess, but still wrong > wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf > > Any clues much appreciated! > > Yours, > Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877hljr2mw....@ericabrahamsen.net
