Debian won't see Tecra9100 wireless, but Knoppix will

[dpriddy]

Hi,

I've tried to get Debian to recognize my built in wireless NIC on my Toshiba Tecra9100, but I'm having difficulties. Knoppix sees it when it's running. I think the Debian installer made use of the wireless connection during it's install, but once it's installed, only the wired connection shows up as usable.

I'm new to setting up Linux on personal machines. I use Linux at work, but I did not do the installation.

Suggestions?

Thanks

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome to the Forums. You probably just need to find out which module Knoppix was using and apply that to Debian.
You could start here and post the relevant info for more help.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...tart-here.html

[dpriddy]

Hi,

I started in the Debian help forum and was directed here. Attached is the output from the "Start here" instructions as best as I could follow them in the forum as extracted from Knoppix. I did the same thing on Debian, but could not quite figure out how to get the generated file from the hard drive when booting from Knoppix. I'd like to get Debian to use the wireless NIC just like Knoppix is doing as I post this.

In case it's not clear from the attachment, I've got a Tecra9100

Suggestions?

Thanks

[Dapper Dan]

I haven't had time to really go over it, but after a cursory examination, it appears you have the orinoco_cs driver loaded for a PCMCIA device plugged into a pc slot. Is that correct? Or is this an internal wireless device?

If a PCMCIA card, can you tell us the card make and model? What is the output of:

iwconfig

?

[dpriddy]

Hi,

Here's what iwconfig shows:

knoppix@Knoppix:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Naboo" Nickname:"HERMES I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0D:72:33:48:F9
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=41/92 Signal level=-50 dBm Noise level=-91 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:181
Tx excessive retries:2 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth1 no wireless extensions.

eth2 no wireless extensions.

knoppix@Knoppix:~$

[dpriddy]

If this is PCMCIA, it's not a removable card in one of the slots. Maybe that's the way this model was set up to do wireless - hooking internally to PCMCIA instead of PCI

[Dapper Dan]

Do you see access points when doing:

iwlist eth0 scan

What is the name of the access point you are trying to connect to?

[dpriddy]

Hi,

I don't know what changed, but it's working now. The access point was 'Naboo' btw - that's my home wireless network.

Thanks to all that responded.