I'm using a command line environment on what is probably a limited size
laptop and the only wpa_supplicant on debian is a gui package. There's
no command line version of that package.
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Willem van der Walt wrote:
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 01:49:27
From: Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: debian from ethernet to wifi
Hi,
If you run iwconfig and it see your wlan0 or whatever, it is not a driver
issue.
I have a script that sets up /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.
It works for me and I have solved a number of wifi configs with that.
In short, you need wpa_supplicant and two extra lines in your
/etc/network/interfaces to do the job.
Here is an example.
The wifi is known as ra0 and iwconfig shows it as such, so replace ra0 with
whatever yours is called.
The interfaces entry:
iface ra0 inet dhcp
pre-up wpa_supplicant -ira0 -B -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant
auto ra0
An example entry in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
network={
ssid="mikrofoon"
priority=0
proto=WPA2
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="mikrofoon"
}
The PSK is the password.
The ssid is the name of the network.
Most people will use WPA2, so this entry should work unless you have a fancy
setup.
HTH, Willem
On Sat, 12 Sep 2015, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
Okay but you need more information. There are several Broadcom drivers so
you need the model like b4306, 4312 or whatever, the revision (for instance
the 4306 has three if I recall) and the identifier is a good idea too. When
I have a minute I'll send you the lspci formula for that unless somebody
else does. Nowadays a lot of them can have their firmware installed with
one of a couple of firmware installers available on debian if you have the
contrib category in your /etc/apt/sources.list but one size definitely
doesn't fit all. Not all wifi cards are that complicated and many have
modules that load automatically though you still have to configure for your
network, but the Broadcoms, at least some of them, have a lot of
variations. The reason i know so much about this is that the card on my
powerpc Mac is a b43, a b4306 revision 3. I still don't have it working but
I don't think it's because it's a b43 as I'm having the same problem with
my Intel which is what should be a !
ni!
ce straightforward Atheros. But alas, they both scan and report all the
wireless networks out there just as pretty as you please, but the finnicky
things won't connect. I'm inclined to either blame myself or wpasupplicant
which is a package you also may end up using unless you can use orca and
get the network manager to solve it for you.
On Sep 11, 2015, at 11:32 PM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've been doing some work over here and discovered a few things.
dmesg|grep -in wlan returned wlan0 as a broadcom device so I installed
broadcom-sta-common with recommended packages I'm not sure if connecting
the wifi adapter helped or not but will find out shortly. The tower
without the adapter has no wlan mentions in dmesg whe searched. I'll
check it with the antenna later and see if that helps.On Fri, 11 Sep 2015,
Joel Roth wrote:
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 22:27:11
From: Joel Roth <joelz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: debian from ethernet to wifi
Jude DaShiell wrote:
I have a command line installation of debian on a laptop that's supposed
to
have the hardware to do wifi. Right now, I don't yet know what
additional
software to install so this computer can talk to the wifi network and
log
on. archlinux has madwifi and a large section on wifi installation on
its
installguide file but that's not in the debian repository so for now I
have
no clue. I do have a wifi adapter antenna I will have to use with a
tower
system but don't know if this wil also be needed to run the laptop.
Here are a few you could try: (from dpkg -l | grep firmware)
firmware-iwlwifi 0.43
all Binary firmware for Intel Wireless cards
firmware-linux-free 3.3
all Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
firmware-linux-nonfree 0.43
all Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
firmware-realtek 0.43
all Binary firmware for Realtek wired and wireless network
adapters
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