Re: Airport wireless and current Debian

2016-04-27 Thread Risto Suominen
Hi, 2016-04-28 0:12 UTC+03.00, Riccardo Mottola : > > proven that currently... I can't use the card's firmware (I get the > warning + doesn't work) but it doesn't work with 9.48 either (no > warning but it doesn't work)... I don't see many options. > Perhaps there was an intermediate version of t

Re: Airport wireless and current Debian

2016-04-27 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. prov

Re: Airport wireless and current Debian

2016-04-18 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Mathieu; Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >firmware-linux-nonfree: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 20160110-1 > Version table: > 20160110-1 500 > 500http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable/non-free powerpc >Packages > >I just installed it yesterday, because otherwise during star

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

Re: Airport wireless and current Debian

2016-04-13 Thread Dan DeVoto
ola wrote: Subject: Airport wireless and current Debian To: "PowerPC List Debian" Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 4:02 PM Hi, I just upgraded everything. I noticed that I cannot connect to my home wifi anymore, which is a pretty simple WEP encrypted network, which always used to

Re: Airport wireless and current Debian

2016-04-13 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 1:02 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded everything. > > I noticed that I cannot connect to my home wifi anymore, which is a pretty > simple WEP encrypted network, which always used to work. > > I noticed that the Airport card is detected as a device and t

Re: Airport wireless and current Debian

2016-04-13 Thread Risto Suominen
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. Risto

Airport wireless and current Debian

2016-04-13 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I just upgraded everything. I noticed that I cannot connect to my home wifi anymore, which is a pretty simple WEP encrypted network, which always used to work. I noticed that the Airport card is detected as a device and that I can configure it with iwconfig to the correct ESSID and KEY: