[NBLUG/talk] Wireless configure in Debian

Ian Sutherland iansuth at fastmail.fm
Thu Mar 3 15:26:16 PST 2005


I don't have an internet connection with Debian so can't download
wireless tools. Is there another way to get wireless tools? I have the
Debian sarge install disk.

Thanks, Ian

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:26:02 -0800, "Troy Arnold" <troy at zenux.net> said:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:54:07AM -0800, Ian Sutherland wrote:
> > How do I start wireless in Debian? I have a connection in Windows and 
> > Ubuntu. I do not have "Wireless Tools" installed in Debian.
> 
> # apt-get install wireless-tools
> 
> # iwconfig wlan0 essid "foobear"
> # dhclient wlan0
> 
> If that works then you can stick a stanza like so in
> /etc/network/interfaces:
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> wireless-essid "foobear"
> 
> It gets more complicated if wep-keys , etc. are involved.  See 'man
> interfaces' and 'man wireless' if necessary.
> 
> Of course, all of the above assumes that you're card is recognized and a
> driver is being loaded for it.
> 
> If not, I would do an 'lsmod' in ubuntu and note the name of the driver
> for your card.  Then, in Debian, if it is not being loaded:
> # modprobe driver
> 
> If that works, add the name of the driver to /etc/modules so that it
> will be loaded upon boot.
> 
> -troy
> 
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