[Alaric]

I'm having some trouble with my bcm4309. The networking tools seem to think that I have the driver correctly loaded, and when I try to activate it and exit out of the window, it does not appear the next time I open it. I've tried windows drivers as well but I think that I'm just too stupid to figure out how to configure it. Is there a totally newbie way to configure wireless internet for Debian Etch? I've managed to get it working under knoppix with a similliar driver setup. Is there any way to get setup tools like those for Debian? Thanks in advance for any help and btw here's my lsmod and /etc/network/interfaces (with the wep key taken out even if it is a joke to crack).

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid roosehome
wireless-key **********

auto eth0

auto wlan0


iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless-key *********


Module Size Used by
arc4 2048 0
ieee80211_crypt_wep 4992 0
bcm43xx 401536 0
firmware_class 9344 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211softmac 22912 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 28616 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
ieee80211_crypt 5376 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211
isofs 31672 1
udf 71940 0
ipv6 211424 10
ppdev 8452 0
parport_pc 31524 0
lp 10692 0
parport 31944 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
button 6544 0
ac 4868 0
battery 9220 0
sata_sil 9480 0
libata 60300 1 sata_sil
scsi_mod 120840 1 libata
nls_iso8859_1 4224 1
ntfs 184468 1
dm_snapshot 15772 0
dm_mirror 17616 0
dm_mod 48696 2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror
loop 13832 0
joydev 8896 0
8250_pci 19840 0
snd_atiixp 17292 2
snd_atiixp_modem 14088 0
snd_ac97_codec 82336 2 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem
snd_ac97_bus 2304 1 snd_ac97_codec
shpchp 33816 0
pci_hotplug 26420 1 shpchp
snd_pcm_oss 35616 1
snd_mixer_oss 15616 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 71432 4 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm _oss
snd_timer 19716 1 snd_pcm
snd 45668 9 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm _oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
rtc 11444 0
psmouse 34184 0
pcspkr 2816 0
tsdev 7360 0
evdev 8960 2
mousedev 10400 1
serio_raw 6276 0
ati_agp 8460 0
agpgart 29232 1 ati_agp
soundcore 8800 2 snd
snd_page_alloc 9480 3 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_pcm
ext3 115336 1
jbd 45460 1 ext3
usbhid 35040 0
ide_cd 35104 1
cdrom 32288 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 14976 4
generic 4356 0 [permanent]
ohci_hcd 17412 0
ehci_hcd 26888 0
usbcore 108544 4 usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
atiixp 5520 0 [permanent]
ide_core 107940 4 ide_cd,ide_disk,generic,atiixp
8139too 23680 0
8139cp 19328 0
mii 5248 2 8139too,8139cp
thermal 12680 0
processor 21440 1 thermal
fan 4484 0