[Prism54-users] New wireless woes thread SOLVED

[Damon L. Chesser]

Damon L. Chesser wrote:

> Damon L. Chesser wrote:
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> Seems to be solved, I will post details in the near future.  Right now 
> my eyes hurt from looking at the screen all day.  Thanks everybody!!
>
Since recompiling the kernel so the driver can be compiled against the 
kernel, the one thing that kept the driver from loading was hotplug.  I 
thought I had the latest version (I checked before I started).  The 
problem with hotplug was this:  Libranet runs an archive of the mix of 
woody/sarge/sid/unofficial debs that will let you do an upgrade with out 
blowing out the Libranet specific mods they have made.  When I ran 
synaptic (I like gui's) it reported no newer versions of hotplug.  I 
edited the sources.list file to point only to sid and still it showed no 
newer version.  Same with the cli apt-get, and apt-search.  I notice an 
"expert" tab on synaptic, clicked on it (while looking at hotplug) and 
it showed me  a later version (0.0.20040105-3 (unstable)) with a check 
next to it and a warning saying my package managment could stop 
working.  I checked the spot and installed it.  Ran ifconfig eth1 up and 
the drivers loaded.

Still havent connected to the router yet.  That was all the time I had 
yesterday.  Thank you Bob, Karl-Heinz, and Elimar (your right RTFM, and 
UTFL).  While I have the tools and the background to fix this on my own, 
I don't have the experiance to put it all together and the indepth 
knowlage to interpet the findings of the tools.  I doubt I would have 
fixed it with out blind guessing on my own.

Any suggestsions for gui interfaces to "see" what is going on with the 
wireless connection.  Kismet comes to mind, but can it handel .11g?

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Damon L. Chesser
dchesser@bigfoot.com