Help elderly newbie with wifi

[tonydi]

Yes I did and have restarted the computer again this morning. Sadly no activity. Here are some outputs :-

debian:/home/tony# ./wifidiag
pccardctl ident

Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info: "Agere Systems", "Wireless PC Card Model 0111", "", ""
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0003
function: 6 (network)

lspcmcia
Socket 0 Bridge: [yenta_cardbus] (bus ID: 0000:00:0b.0)
Socket 1 Bridge: [yenta_cardbus] (bus ID: 0000:00:0b.1)
Socket 1 Device 0: [-- no driver --] (bus ID: 1.0)

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

irda0 no wireless extensions.


ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)

Network setting does not show any device for configueration. Whereas when the 3com wired network card is in place this does show up.

Thanks

Tony

[waterhead]

Is there maybe a switch on the wireless card to turn it on/off?

If you have a dual boot system with windoze, can you use it in windoze? Sometimes you need to use a wireless in windoze first, to inititalize it. Then it will work in Linux. I'm just fishing for an answer here, because I don't really have one.