Re: Airport wireless and current Debian

2016-04-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: I just installed it yesterday, because otherwise during startup I saw in the >messages a problem with missing firmware. That precisely states you did not install it... That package installs actually two packages... the linux-misc and the ati, I installed just one of t

Re: Airport wireless and current Debian

2016-04-14 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> >>> that I can >>> >configure it with iwconfig to the correct ESSID and KEY: >> >> What do you get running: >> >> $ apt-cache policy firmware-linux-nonfree > > > > firmware-linux-nonfree: > Installed:

Re: Airport wireless and current Debian

2016-04-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Risto Suominen wrote: What firmware version did you have before? Looks like the card has 8.70, and Debian loads 9.48. You could try to rename the file agere_sta_fw.bin, forcing the card to use its own firmware. I have seen situations where loading 9.48 gives me WPA but takes away WEP. I do

Re: Airport wireless and current Debian

2016-04-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: that I can >configure it with iwconfig to the correct ESSID and KEY: What do you get running: $ apt-cache policy firmware-linux-nonfree firmware-linux-nonfree: Installed: (none) Candidate: 20160110-1 Version table: 20160110-1 500 500 http://ft