On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:03:29 +0100 (BST)
"Vic" <lug@???> wrote:
>
> > However it (an old Co itmpaq N160) is working perfectly well with
> > Debian Squeeze on it, but it will only work with a wired connection
> > as it doesn't recognise cardbus PCMCIA cards.
>
> Does it recognise any PCMCIA cards?
Morning Vic
I don't know as both the wireless cards I have are cardbus ones and I
don't have any other cards to try out.
> My N160 works fine with PCMCIA Wireless - that's all I've managed to
> get working, as I totally failed to find a decent placement for the
> antennae when I tried putting a mini-PCI card in.
>
> If other types of cards work, your distro probably isn't installing
> the assorted binary firmware blobs required by the cards.
I had installed both firmware-free and firmware-non-free packages from
the debian. I had also tried using the XP windows drivers for the card
with ndiswrappers in the past.
To be honest it wasn't something I'd been too concerned about as I
didn't have a wireless network at home until this week, any mobile
computing I'd done had been with my EeePC which 'just worked out of
the box' after I'd installed DebianEeePC to replace the system it
came with (one of those with a 'simplified' interface).
--
John Lewis
using Debian sid
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