Die Sun Nov 11 2012 22:05:36 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) Brian Wall <kc0iog at gmail.com> scripsit: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Ed C. <eminmn at sysmatrix.net> wrote: >> >> Sorry about the scattergun approach. I was trying to provide as much >> context as possible for dealing with the main question: why didn't >> Debian figure out the Thinkpad wifi requirements? I've installed >> slackware, red hat, and a couple of buntu's and the wifi always worked > > Two thoughts: > > I had an issue dual booting my Win7 laptop and Fedora. For some > reason, rebooting the laptop into the other OS would cause the wifi > NIC to go offline. In order for the NIC to function, I ahd to shut > down the laptop, then power it on between OS changes. That was > specific to an Intel B/G card. > > For awhile the Atheros driver was considered "dirty" (as in contained > code from undetermined sources) so Debian did not include the drivers > in the standard distro. I don't know if this is related or not to > your issue, but it could explain why Debian didn't just see and use > your wifi. Sometimes Debian doesn't include "normal" stuff to remain > free of copyright issues. > > Can you please post the output of 'lspci -nn'? That will give us a > hint about your wifi card and perhaps hint at the issue. That showed an Intel network card (or chipset) that needed a non-free driver: firmware-iwlwifi_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb. After doing dpkg -i on that file, found and downloaded via the windows7 firefox, Debian squeeze detected the local wifis. Now I have a keyring I got from somewhere (the Debian site) that I can't get rid of. What's a keyring? Ed > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >