[Debian-eeepc-devel] 1000HA: WiFi device not dectected in Squeeze (was: wifi and squeeze)

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Vincent,


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Am Freitag, den 13.08.2010, 10:48 +0200 schrieb Vincent Hobeika:

[…]

> I managed to install a debian squeeze on my eeepc 1000HA.
>
> It runs quite well. I have a problem though with the wifi device. I
> cannot figure how to make it work.
> 
> The following page http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Model/1000HA
> says that the Atheros card is now supported with the squeeze kernel.
> 
> I have checked and it seems I have an Atheros card:
> 
> $ lspci -nn

[…]

> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet [1969:1026] (rev b0)
> 
> Well as you can see (last line) there is an Atheros device. The
> strange thing is that only the ethernet controller shows up. Moreover
> the wifi is working like a charm with the Windows XP shipped with the
> eeepc. So there must be a wireless controller somewhere. Maybe it's
> simply the full name of the device that has changed but I doubt that
> because I don't see any AR5001 in this output and I believe it's the
> part number of the wireless controller.

Please attach or paste the output from `dmesg` or from `/var/log/syslog`
(just last boot). Please also paste the output of `lsmod`.

Are there some LEDs indicating if WiFi is activated? Is the WiFi card
normally disabled at boot time and the Windows driver just enabled it
automatically?

> I have installed wicd and the client doesn't find any wireless
> connection while I know there are dozen where I am. It successfully
> shows the actual wired connection I am using right now.

If there is no device detected it is quite likely that WiFi programs
will not work.

[…]


Thanks,

Paul
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