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Wireless Card Detection?

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Carlosinfl

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I am using Ubuntu which I don't really like. I would love to be using Debian Linux on my Dell Latitude D810 but Ubuntu detects my Intel wireless NIC right away. I don't have to use any stupid confusing wrappers or crazy compiling drivers and stuff.

If Ubuntu detects my NIC, will Debian "Testing" or "Unstable" detect my wireless NIC?

I can't see why Debian can't and Ubuntu can since Ubuntu is based off of Debian.

Thanks for any info!
 
Simple enough: Ubuntu has better hardware detection capabilities (all it really is, just Debian with easier install/hardware detection). The Ubuntu devs added this stuff on to the basic Debian distro. Same with Knoppix or Xandros, both are based on Debian, but have better hardware support out the gate.

Debian, on the other hand, doesn't hold your hand as much so you will have to take initiative and actually do some stuff yourself:

Anyway, in my Ubuntu install, hacked enough to not really resemble Ubuntu at all, I had to install drivers anyway, since the basic ones in Ubuntu don't have WPA support.

Intel wireless pro drivers for all Linux (2.6 and newer)
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net

and instructions:

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/INSTALL

It's really not hard at all, just follow the instructions and you should be good to go.
 
Ubuntu is a bit more bleeding-edge than debian, so debian probably just uses an older kernel that might not have support for your card. Or perhaps debian just doesn't have as many modules compiled by default as ubuntu(i fucking swear ubuntu has just about every possible thing compiled as a module as possible(not saying that's necessarily a bad thing - wide hardware support is great - but i just don't like crap in there that i don't need)).

Anyway, if it works in ubuntu then i can just about guarantee you can get it working in debian. Might have to recompile your kernel to add in support, but it should work. Drivers are not distribution specific at all, so hardware that works in one distribution should work in any.


edit: damn, this has been happening to me a lot lately. reply to a post that is a few hours old, and end up posting at the exact same time as someone else. :p
 
BillLeeLee said:
It's really not hard at all, just follow the instructions and you should be good to go.
Click to expand...

So you're saying it's pretty straight forward on Debian if I just follow those directions or were you talking about Ubuntu.
 
Instructions are the same for all Linuxes, they're pretty much distro-agnostic, but you do need a fairly recent kernel (2.6.8 or newer) for the newest ipw2200 drivers.
 
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