[NBLUG/talk] Wireless configure in Debian

Ian Sutherland iansuth at fastmail.fm
Fri Mar 4 13:00:04 PST 2005


Thanks, I was able to download and install. What is foobear? What does
it mean in the command? Still no luck getting a connection. The driver
is prism54 and is present. The card is eth1. What info would help?

Thanks, Ian

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 20:34:16 -0800, "Troy Arnold" <troy at zenux.net> said:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:26:16PM -0800, Ian Sutherland wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> If it's a recent sarge installer, I'd say it's doable.  You can grab:
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/wireless-tools/wireless-tools_27-2_i386.deb
> and
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/wireless-tools/libiw27_27-2_i386.deb
> 
> I say recent, because both of the above depend upon libc6 >= 2.3.2.ds1-4
> 
> If your libc6 is older, then there really isn't a feasible way (without
> a working 'net connection) to grab all the dependencies a libc6 upgrade
> would require.
> 
> To install the downloaded debs, do:
> dpkg -i wireless-tools_27-2_i386.deb libiw27_27-2_i386.deb
> 
> -troy
> 
> 
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