A few moments ago, I had success connecting with a Belkin USB Network adapter. I have had problems with wifi-radar in Zenwalk 5.0, and learned to install and use "wicd". Now, in a very beautiful Elive e17 installation at my Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop, with wicd my wireless network appears available, and my laptop was succesfully connected to my router. You must install the M$ driver at the CD of Belkin N.Adapter, and as root do: modprobe -i ndiswrapper If ifconfig does not show the interface wlan0, then do ifconfig wlan0 up The green light of the adapter will blink Then, follow this instructiosn to install wicd: See the page http: / / wicd.sourceforge.net /download.php
Installing Wicd in Debian
You can also use the apt repository. Just add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http: // apt.wicd.net debian extras
Now you can apt-get update and apt-get install wicd
Troubleshooting If Wicd fails to connect after you install it, make sure that the only entry in your /etc/network/interfaces file is
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
You can change the contents of this file by typing as root in elive:
cream /etc/network/interfaces
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/17/2008 04:03AM by maceiras.