http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse This will give you a good starting point. Past the wicd instructions you'll see how to configure a wireless card from /etc/network/interfaces. It's basically the same as a wired card plus some extra parameters for the wireless protection.
2010/9/19 hugo vanwoerkom <hvw59...@care2.com> > Hi, > > I run a laptop with lenny and debian kernel 2.6.32 that runs wireless. > > I connected to the laptop via USB a disk that contains a partition that > also has debian kernel 2.6.32 but sid and that doesn't have network manager > or wicd installed. > > How would I get wireless going without them on that USB disk? > > The laptop wireless module b43 gets loaded when I boot from the uSB disk. > > /etc/network/interfaces has: > > # The loopback network interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > Hugo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i75frd$v0...@dough.gmane.org > >
