Re: [LUG] Debian and home hubs.

[JOHN DAVEY <johndavey303@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- On Fri, 15/1/10, Dan Dart <dandart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Dan Dart <dandart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [LUG] Debian and home hubs.
> To: "list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, 15 January, 2010, 1:21
> Looks to me that you have a PRO/100
> Ethernet card and an ath5k wifi- which is the same chipset
> as I had with no problems. I don't think it requires
> firmware, you just might be missing a userspace tool. Try
> with wicd if there isn't one by default. Do you know if the
> encryption is WPA or WEP? I think new black curvy homehubs
> have WPA and old white rectangular ones have WEP by
> default.
> Cheers
> Dan

THanks for getting back to me Dan.
...I have just changed it to WEP...Is 'wicd' a command?... 
> On 15 Jan 2010, at 00:11, JOHN DAVEY <johndavey303@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > --- On Mon, 11/1/10, dandart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <dandart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >> From: dandart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <dandart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Subject: Re: [LUG] Debian and home hubs.
> >> To: "JOHN DAVEY" <johndavey303@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: Monday, 11 January, 2010, 17:57
> >> Lenny doesn't have any non-free
> >> wireless firmware so you might have a bit of
> trouble unless
> >> you download the firmware from the website (using
> ethernet
> >> or a USB from another computer).
> >> Ubuntu has them all,
> >> but Debian is so free it takes them all out of the
> default
> >> install.
> >> 
> >> Check by running "dmesg" to
> >> check if it was looking for firmware it couldn't
> >> find.
> >> 
> >> Cheers
> > OK, I did that and got;
> > 
> > es: 127619
> > [    0.000000] Kernel command line:
> root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet
<snip>
> > puter:/home/jon#
> > 
> > ...someone will have to tell me what this means. I've
> got no idea. Hope fully it might be informative.
> > Cheers, JOn

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