wifi

[peter bouchard]

Hello
I am new to the debian scene and i have no idea how to get the wifi
suport i have looked online and cannot find anything. if you could
please send me a link to a site that has a tutorial or please send me
one. thank you very much and i like your operating system very much
thank you verey much


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[Jerome BENOIT-2]

Hello Peter,

what about this wiki ?

http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi

hth,
Jerome

peter bouchard wrote:
> Hello
> I am new to the debian scene and i have no idea how to get the wifi
> suport i have looked online and cannot find anything. if you could
> please send me a link to a site that has a tutorial or please send me
> one. thank you very much and i like your operating system very much
> thank you verey much
>
>

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[Nate Bargmann-4]

* peter bouchard <zell992004@...> [2009 Nov 01 19:27 -0600]:
> Hello
> I am new to the debian scene and i have no idea how to get the wifi
> suport i have looked online and cannot find anything. if you could
> please send me a link to a site that has a tutorial or please send me
> one. thank you very much and i like your operating system very much
> thank you verey much

I've had excellent success with the wicd package.  My laptop has an
Atheros card and the kernel/udev/hal loads the ath5k module on system
start and wicd takes it from there.  One must be careful to follow the
instructions in /usr/share/doc/wicd/README.Debian to the letter.

the wicd package is in Sid (Unstable) and Squeeze (Testing) and I think
a backport exists for Lenny (Stable).  Enjoy!

- Nate >>

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[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 08:10:55PM -0500, peter bouchard wrote:
> Hello
> I am new to the debian scene and i have no idea how to get the wifi
> suport i have looked online and cannot find anything. if you could
> please send me a link to a site that has a tutorial or please send me
> one. thank you very much and i like your operating system very much
> thank you verey much

If you are thinking to get wifi working, use network-manager or wicd.

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_network_configuration_for_desktop

Since these package in lenny was not mature enough at the time of
release, you may find backported packages to be more useful.  

Osamu


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