On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 18:29:41 +0200, Tim Kynerd wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:39:27 -0400, Russ wrote:
>
>> Tim Kynerd wrote:
>>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:01:58 +0200, Tim Kynerd wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Good guess! :-) It's a Netgear WG311T (i.e., the PCI version).
>>>>
>>>>"E: Couldn't find package kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686"
>>>>
>>>>All I have is what's on the DVD images I downloaded from debian.org and
>>>>burned (no access to the 'Net on that machine; I'm posting this from my
>>>>PowerBook). But there's a 2.6 kernel on the DVDs that I'll try
>>>>installing. Thanks for the info; that (upgrading the kernel with
>>>>apt-get) is much easier than I thought it would be.
>>>>
>>>>PS I downloaded the DVDs this weekend, so it's 3.1 (Sarge) r0a.
>>>>
>>>>Best,
>>>>Tim
>>>
>>>
>>> No luck. The kernel sorta seems to recognize the card and all -- at
>>> least there's an interface in the kernel now called "ath0" -- but I
>>> can't even activate it in the "Networking" tool. When I activate it, it
>>> is immediately deactivated again. :-(
>>>
>>> I've found /etc/network/interfaces and am going to try to make sure I
>>> have all the options in there that I need, but my feeling is that
>>> something more fundamental is wrong -- there actually doesn't seem to
>>> be any connection between interface ath0 and the hardware (the card).
>>> Does that make any sense?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>> Ahhh... The WG311T using the Atheros chipset with Super G technology,
>> I assume? You will need ndiswrapper to get it going.
>>
>> I assume that you installed the wireless-tools package and that you are
>> using iwconfig, yes? If so, good.
>>
>> Well, disable all encryption for now in your AP or Router. It is far
>> easier to get a wireless card going without it.
>>
>> Copy the latest Windows XP drivers from Netgear's site to a known
>> directory and insert your DVD.
>>
>> This is the debian way:
>>
>> 1)Open a console as root
>> 2)Type in "apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils ndiswrapper-source
>> wireless-tools wireless-tools-udeb module-assistant" ... wait until done
>
> wireless-tools-udeb is not on the DVDs.
>
> The Debian machine has no Internet connectivity.
>
> Suggestions?

I just now wired my Debian machine to my PowerBook (where I'm writing
this) to give it Internet connectivity. I then ran apt-setup to add a
couple of FTP sources (ftp.se.debian.org and ftp.sunet.se) to apt. It
still says it can't find wireless-tools-udeb.

What am I doing wrong? :-)

Best,
Tim