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<div>First, I just want to thank those who have contributed to the EEE port of Debian. I've never used Debian before, and I've just bought an Asus EEE PC 2G Surf. I started with the default Xandros desktop and had no problem getting setup with wifi, but there's very limited software available and if you added the Debian repositories to the Xandros system there is, according to the wiki, a good chance of breaking your system pretty badly. Someone on IRC recommended using the Debian EEE install on my Asus EEE. So downloaded the customized installation program that is imaged directly onto my flashdrive.</div>
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<div>The installation went pretty smooth, it would have went a lot smoother if I would have read more of the documents to learn not to select "Desktop Environment" during the installation, which kept wiping out my meager 2 GB disk. I first tried installing over Wifi but I was having connection problems until I plugged in an ethernet cable. But I think this is what might have caused the problems I'm now having as I can log into Debian just fine and have internet access with an ethernet cable, but now I can't get Wifi up and running. Maybe some drivers weren't installed or some configuration file wasn't set up properly?</div>
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<div>I've already tried the GNOME network manager to no avail, and I've tried just setting up through the interfaces file as described on the wiki. Here's my /etc/network/interfaces:</div>
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<div># This file describes the network interfaces available on your system</div>
<div># and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).</div>
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<div># The loopback network interface</div>
<div>#auto lo</div>
<div>#iface lo inet loopback</div>
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<div># The primary network interface</div>
<div>#allow-hotplug eth0</div>
<div>#iface eth0 inet dhcp</div>
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<div>#allow-hotplug ath0</div>
<div>#iface ath0 inet dhcp</div>
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<div>auto ath0</div>
<div>iface ath0 inet dhcp</div>
<div>wireless-essid router linksys</div>
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<div>As you can see I've commented out something else I was trying. I don't really understand what the commands in this file do, slowly I'll eventually figure it out.</div>
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<div>But here's the result when I try the network restart command (which I found in a post somewhere on the web). I piped this to a text file so I can post it here, but I see the same issue when I boot up:</div>
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<div>Reconfiguring network interfaces...There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.ath0.pid with pid 16133</div>
<div>killed old client process, removed PID file</div>
<div>Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1</div>
<div>Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.</div>
<div>All rights reserved.</div>
<div>For info, please visit <a href="http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/">http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/</a></div>
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<div>wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801</div>
<div>wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801</div>
<div>Listening on LPF/ath0/00:15:af:75:a3:7e</div>
<div>Sending on LPF/ath0/00:15:af:75:a3:7e</div>
<div>Sending on Socket/fallback</div>
<div>Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1</div>
<div>Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.</div>
<div>All rights reserved.</div>
<div><br>For info, please visit <a href="http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/">http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/</a></div>
<div><br>wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801</div>
<div>wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801</div>
<div>Listening on LPF/ath0/00:15:af:75:a3:7e</div>
<div>Sending on LPF/ath0/00:15:af:75:a3:7e</div>
<div>Sending on Socket/fallback</div>
<div>DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3</div>
<div>DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8</div>
<div>DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13</div>
<div>DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11</div>
<div>DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20</div>
<div>DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6</div>
<div>No DHCPOFFERS received.</div>
<div>No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.<br>done.</div>
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<div>I don't know why it's not detecting wifi0, maybe I missed something in my configurations. I just went into the BIOS setup and found that WLAN was disabled. I enabled it but found it had no effect. In fact, the menu on the GNOME network monitor has even less options when I enable it, so I think that it's supposed to be disabled.</div>
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<div>Anyway, can anyone here help set me in the right direction? I'd love to at least be able to connect to open wifi hotspots, and then later I'll see if I can connect to my home/secured network. I've read the WiFi wiki and if I missed something there I'm really sorry. I haven't had a whole lot of experience with GNU/Linux mainly because I always end up having trouble getting internet, in one fashion or another, working the way it's supposed to. One of the main reasons I bought the Asus EEE was in the assumption that since it's preinstalled with linux I wouldn't have the driver problems I've had before. Anyway, this time I really want to have a working GNU/Linux OS and Debian is really nice. I just have the feeling that it's something simple that I've forgotten or overlooked or simply don't know about.</div>
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<div>Any help would be truly appreciated.</div>
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<div>Sincerely,</div>
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<div>Kevin</div>
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