how to set up wifi

[dn90]

First of all I'm new to Debian... I have laptop Asus and I need your help to set up wireless internet on it. Any ideas? The only thing I know is a name of the driver Atheros Communications Inc. AR242X 802.11 abg wireless PCI Express Adapter (wireless). Big thanks for your time and help!

[GNU-Fan]

Is there a network manager applet running in any panel?
(Panels are the two gray horizontal bars on top and bottom of the screen.)

[reed9]

Your network card uses the ath5k driver. There is a bug in Debian Lenny regarding this card, though. You need to either enable Debian Backports and install kernel 2.6.29 or later, or you can use the madwifi drivers.

ath5k - Debian Wiki

[Heeren]

I suppose that you should check the driver from the "hardware driver" option in the "System->Administration->hardware drivers" . now let ubuntu search the appropriate driver for you .. and generally its broadcom so you are required to activate it first. Hopefully it will work as it does in most of the cases.

[reed9]

I suppose that you should check the driver from the "hardware driver" option in the "System->Administration->hardware drivers" . now let ubuntu search the appropriate driver for you .. and generally its broadcom so you are required to activate it first. Hopefully it will work as it does in most of the cases.

The poster is using Debian, not Ubuntu.

[uldics]

I would suggest using wicd together with your driver. Quite easy to configure, GUI way.