[Debian-eeepc-devel] 1000HA: WiFi device not dectected in Squeeze

[Paul Menzel]

[I replied to the list again, so that everyone is informed. (Good mail
clients have a »Reply to list« feature. ;-)]


Am Freitag, den 13.08.2010, 12:31 +0200 schrieb Vincent Hobeika:

> Thank you for your quick reply. Sorry about the bad formatting of my
> last e-mail. I will try to improve that.

Thanks. No problem.

> > 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?
> 
> Indeed! There is a led for the wifi. It was off. I activated it with
> the Fn+F2 hotkey, then rebooted the pc and now the wireless appears in
> the lspci -nn output. Wicd is now able to find the surrounding
> wireless points. I just have to find how to authenticate with WPA-PSK
> and it should run fine.
> 
> Thanks again for pointing the evidence.

I am glad, that it worked and that it was that simple. (I think that has
happened to some people already.)


Thanks,

Paul
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