Guido MartÃnez wrote: > I recently purchased a 802.11n wifi pci card and placed it my pc. > After that, I proceeded to install debian. I noted that I could not > configure the wifi network from the installer (it's probably possible, > but I don't know how) so I attached a network cable and the > installation ran smoothly.
It is impossible for me to tell from your words if you have a card that isn't supported or if you just weren't able to drive it. At this point in history the debian-installer only supports WEP wifi networking and does not support WPA/WPA2. Yet. All things happen eventually. So if you were trying to connect to an open wifi access point it should have been fine. If you were trying to connect to an access point with WEP it should have been possible, if somewhat tedious to configure. But if you were trying to connect to a WPA/WPA2 access point you would have been blocked by the fact that there isn't code in the program to do it. > Now I'm booting into debian, with the cable still connected since I > have no network manager for wifi, After you have installed the system and booted into it then for wifi there are three main ways to go. By default NetworkManager is installed. NetworkManager will either work fine for you or cause you endless grief. It has been the topic of much discussion on the list. The best alternative is to install 'wicd' instead of NM. It works much better than NetworkManager. The third option is to do it the long manual way using your own full configuration. For a mobile device I recommend wicd. For a fixed device that uses wifi, if I had one of those of my own then I would use a fixed, manually specified wpa_supplicant configuration. > and the connection is crappy. It's not a hardware or internet > problem since this same PC in windows has no issues, as the other > PC's in my house. A wired connection should work very well. A wired connection should work much better than a wifi connection. If a wired connection is available I would always prefer it over a wifi connection. However even I use a wifi connection for my mobile devices just out of convenience when performance and reliability isn't needed. > Now I removed the wifi card and the network runs with no problems. That is very unexpected. > What could be causing this? I'll provide info if you need any Are you sure you don't have a bad cable or connection and simply the process of moving things around caused it to work better now? I have seen that too many times. Install 'ethtool' and post the output of it. # apt-get install ethtool # ethtool eth0 Bob
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