[Gllug] joining a wireless LAN

[john gennard]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Bruce Richardson wrote: On Mon, Sep 06, 2004, Doug 
Winter wrote:

>> john gennard wrote:
>
>>>>>Firstly, I don't have the 'iwconfig' command available and I can't
>>>>>find which package provides it. Hence I don't know if any driver is 
>>>>>loaded - I doubt, however, if one is. I looked through the .config
>>>>>file for the kernel and nothing relevant is obvious to me. 
>
>>> To find which package contains a file, you can go to
>>> http://packages.debian.org
>>> And choose "Search the contents of packages"


>Or you can use apt-file, if you have installed it.

This is embarrassing, I've used that before, and I can't
understand why I didn't think of it this time.

I've now got 'wireless-tools' installed, but running
#iwconfig just shows 'lo  - no wireless extensions'
and the same for 'eth0' and 'sit0'.

I booted up Knoppix 3.4 to see if it would recognise
the Adaptor automatically, but it didn't do so. I'm 
assuming 'kernel/drivers/net/wireless' is required, but
then the question of the correct driver and whether a
kernel patch is needed has been the subject of a mass of
correspondence, most of which is beyond me. 

Can any one take me forward, please.

John.


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