[NBLUG/talk] Wireless configure in Debian

Ian Sutherland iansuth at fastmail.fm
Sat Mar 5 16:14:30 PST 2005


Thanks, That and all the other input did it. 

Many thanks to all, Ian

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 14:15:30 -0800, "Liz Young" <liz at kandew.com> said:
> On Sat March 5 2005 01:29 pm, Ian Sutherland wrote:
> > During boot sequence;
> >
> > eth0 could not upload firmware is13890.
> 
> Sorry, I'm late to this thread so missed the type of card you have.  If 
> it's a prism (like mine for a netgear wg511), you can get the firmware 
> file here:
> http://prism54.org/~mcgrof/firmware/
> 
> Make sure it is renamed correctly (isl3890) and cp'd 
> to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
> 
> Either reboot, or I think restarting hotplug will load the firmware and 
> driver correctly, and then bob's your uncle :-).
> 
> -Liz
> <... >
> 
> 
> > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:40:21 -0800, "Augie Schwer"
> >
> > <augie.schwer at gmail.com> said:
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> > > On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 11:23:17 -0800, Ian Sutherland
> > > <iansuth at fastmail.fm>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > Latest on eth0;
> > > > debian:/home/ian# iwconfig eth0 essid "SonomaGrove"
> > > > debian:/home/ian# dhclient eth0
> > > > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
> > > > send_packet: Network is down
> > >
> > > Ian,
> > >
> > > It sounds like eth0 is not up; try :
> > >
> > > ifconfig eth0 up
> > >
> > > before or after the iwconfig statement.
> > >
> > > Augie.
> > >
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