Re: ieee80211 package not installable-- IT WORKS!! Thanks everyone

2006-04-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
Krzysztof Fabja?ski: > > What about WPA?? As far as I know, you *have* to use wpasupplicant when you want to use WPA. It should be quite easy to configure once you know exactly what kind of WPA you want to set up. There are a lot of examples in the default configuration file. > what /etc/network

Re: ieee80211 package not installable-- IT WORKS!! Thanks everyone

2006-04-23 Thread Krzysztof FabjaĊ„ski
I seem to remember that ieee80211-source fell through a crack as far as module-assistant was concerned around the time Sarge went stable; all fixed in Etch now, of course. In my case I fixed it by manually adding the name of the package (ieee80211-source) to the list of packages in /usr/share

Re: ieee80211 package not installable. What does "compile from kernel" mean?

2006-04-23 Thread David Riggs
Guilherme Menegon Arantes wrote: I compiled it from the 2.6.16-7 kernel, instead of the separate source packages. I have somehow got it working, so how or other (as I noted previously) but I would be grateful if someone would teach what the above remark means. Surely its is not that one has t

Re: ieee80211 package not installable-- IT WORKS!! Thanks everyone

2006-04-22 Thread David Riggs
I seem to remember that ieee80211-source fell through a crack as far as module-assistant was concerned around the time Sarge went stable; all fixed in Etch now, of course. In my case I fixed it by manually adding the name of the package (ieee80211-source) to the list of packages in /usr/sha

Re: ieee80211 package not installable

2006-04-22 Thread Guilherme Menegon Arantes
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 12:05:50AM +1000, John O'Hagan wrote: > On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:22 pm, David Riggs wrote: > [...] > > > > > > apt-get source ieee80211-source > > > [...] > > > > I did "apt-cache source" and it downloaded OK. Why is it not found with > > aptitude? > > > > But I cannot g

Re: ieee80211 package not installable

2006-04-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 21:40:03 +0900, David Riggs wrote: > Thanks to help from the list I am most of the way through getting the > iwp2200 wireless chip on my Thinkpad R50e to work. Upgraded my > Sarge/Stable to 2.6 kernel and installed everything but: > > But I cannot get the ieee80211 packag

Re: ieee80211 package not installable

2006-04-22 Thread John O'Hagan
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:22 pm, David Riggs wrote: [...] > > > > apt-get source ieee80211-source > [...] > > I did "apt-cache source" and it downloaded OK. Why is it not found with > aptitude? > > But I cannot get module-assistant to compile it, does not know about > (maybe because it came in v

Re: ieee80211 package not installable

2006-04-22 Thread David Riggs
> I usually: > > apt-get source ieee80211-source > Dear Vivek, Wow, that was fast! Thanks for the advice. I did "apt-cache source" and it downloaded OK. Why is it not found with aptitude? But I cannot get module-assistant to compile it, does not know about (maybe because it came in via

Re: ieee80211 package not installable

2006-04-22 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, David Riggs wrote: Thanks to help from the list I am most of the way through getting the iwp2200 wireless chip on my Thinkpad R50e to work. Upgraded my Sarge/Stable to 2.6 kernel and installed everything but: But I cannot get the ieee80211 package to come in via apt. I ha

ieee80211 package not installable

2006-04-22 Thread David Riggs
Thanks to help from the list I am most of the way through getting the iwp2200 wireless chip on my Thinkpad R50e to work. Upgraded my Sarge/Stable to 2.6 kernel and installed everything but: But I cannot get the ieee80211 package to come in via apt. I have the testing sources (tried various sit