Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

Finally, thanks to many friends here in the list, we managed to make the wireless on the Acer Aspire 3610 work perfectly on Debian, using ndiswrapper. The core explanation lies under [0]. [0]http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2006/03/msg00076.html ...courtesy of Martin Surovcak. Thanks, Ma

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

Juanjavier Martínez wrote: [...] Here is what `iwconfig wlan0' shows, if it helps: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

Florian Kulzer wrote: Are you entitled to access the "ASUNCION" network, or is that just a random access point which you detect in your neighborhood? Well, the latter option seems to be the situation... :-( "iwconfig wlan0" should show "associated" and the hardware address of the access poi

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

Juanjavier Martínez wrote: Downloaded and installed windows driver for ACER Aspire 3610 So far I successfully installed and got running ndiswrapper, acer_acpi and played "enabled : 1" > /proc/acpi/acer/wireless" So driver and wireless are now working flawless...see [0] Then I type `iwlist wl

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

Downloaded and installed windows driver for ACER Aspire 3610 So far I successfully installed and got running ndiswrapper, acer_acpi and played "enabled : 1" > /proc/acpi/acer/wireless" So driver and wireless are now working flawless...see [0] Then I type `iwlist wlan0 scan' and get wlan0

Re: Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

XXXDDD ,-- Haha,yes, you're right RTFM forever...!!! ;-) You've been of great help, Martin... Cheers, Juan. Madrid, Spain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

sorry, I'm a lttle drunk, but the best way is:man iwconfig :D RTFM :D2006/3/10, Juanjavier Martínez <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: Martin Surovčák wrote:>You are welcome.>>If you would like to scan "air" just try:>>iwlist wlan0 scan>>Good luck>The output of it is attached. How do I connect to what I get the

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

Martin Surovčák wrote: You are welcome. If you would like to scan "air" just try: iwlist wlan0 scan Good luck The output of it is attached. How do I connect to what I get there? Thanks!! Juanjavier Martínez. wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:14:F8:51:11:40

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

Ndiswrapper is a workaround to use Windows drivers for wireless card in Linux. So dowload the Windows driver from acer.com and unpack it let's say i /tmp/wifi. Then move to the /tmp/wifi and as root: ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf ndiswrapper -l modprobe ndiswrapper Now you c

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

Ndiswrapper is a workaround to use Windows drivers for wireless card in Linux. So dowload the Windows driver from acer.com and unpack it let's say i /tmp/wifi. Then move to the /tmp/wifi and as root: ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.infndiswrapper -lmodprobe ndiswrapperNow you can see at the end of dmesg, th

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

Martin Surovčák wrote: I've got Acer 3023LMI that has got some Broadcom Wi-Fi card. Great then!! Mine is Aspire 3610, so I suppose they are very close and similar notebooks I've installed ndiswrapper... Good, I installed ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.8-2-686 yesterday, but now I don't know

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

Martin SurovÄÃk wrote: >I've got Acer 3023LMI that has got some Broadcom Wi-Fi card. I've >installed ndiswrapper and used driver downloaded via acer.com . >To enable Wi-Fi card, I've used acer_acpi >http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi_main.html) instead of >acerhk. To install acer_acpi

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I forward your post to the list, if you don't mind. Greetings, Juanjavier Martínez. P.S. You were quite helpful. Thanks a lot. --- Begin Message --- I've got Acer 3023LMI that has got some Broadcom Wi-Fi card. I've installed ndiswrapper and used driver downloaded via acer.com . To enable Wi-Fi

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 20:06, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > >On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:16, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > >> >On Tuesday 07 March 2006 06:15, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > >> >> Does anyone know what chipset uses this laptop for wireless? > >> >> > >> >> Is any specific kernel nee

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:16, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: >On Tuesday 07 March 2006 06:15, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: >> Does anyone know what chipset uses this laptop for wireless? >> >> Is any specific kernel needed? I have got 2.6.8-2-686 (for Celeron) >> kernel installed. >> >> >> Just ask

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:16, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > >On Tuesday 07 March 2006 06:15, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > >> Does anyone know what chipset uses this laptop for wireless? > >> > >> Is any specific kernel needed? I have got 2.6.8-2-686 (for Celeron) > >> kernel installed. > >> > >> >

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 06:15, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: Does anyone know what chipset uses this laptop for wireless? Is any specific kernel needed? I have got 2.6.8-2-686 (for Celeron) kernel installed. Just asking. Cheers, Juanjavier Martínez. lspci is your friend here. It will lis

Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 06:15, Juanjavier Martínez wrote: > Does anyone know what chipset uses this laptop for wireless? > > Is any specific kernel needed? I have got 2.6.8-2-686 (for Celeron) kernel > installed. > > > Just asking. > > Cheers, > > Juanjavier Martínez. lspci is your friend here.