Install Debian from a Debian box?

[franklin97355]

Also on login it show the software has a date of 6Feb2010 but I thought I had a latter version or at least a download with a later date.

[vitaliy]

It seemed the hardware worked. But the wireless interface is not configured. ESSID is empty (ieee 802.11bg  essid:"")

Here are the typical commands you need to add to /etc/network/interfaces. Your network has to support  WPA
encryption

# The wireless network interface
auto wlan1
iface wlan1 inet static
address 192.168.1.212
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
wpa-psk "your password"
wpa-driver wext
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-proto WPA2
wpa-ssid "your ESSID"

As the 1st step try to execute the commands by hands.
If everything works you can add to /etc/network/interfaces

[franklin97355]

Yes it\'s set that way. I even redownloaded, extracted and installed the latest versions of the software from the ftp site and now it loads like it was before but does not see a wireless device at all ifconfig and iwconfig do not see any devices and the lan card does not flash at all.

[franklin97355]

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# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system

# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).



# The loopback network interface

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback



# The primary network interface

#auto eth1

#iface eth1 inet static

#address 192.168.1.210

#netmask 255.255.255.0

#gateway 192.168.1.1



# The 2nd network interface

#auto eth1:0

#iface eth1:0 inet static

#address 192.168.1.211

#netmask 255.255.255.0

#gateway 192.168.1.1



#allow-hotplug eth0

#iface eth0 inet dhcp



#allow-hotplug eth1

#iface eth1 inet dhcp



#allow-hotplug eth2

#iface eth2 inet dhcp



# The wireless network WPA2-PSK interface



#allow-hotplug wlan1

#iface wlan1 inet dhcp

#pre-up iwconfig wlan1 rate 54M

auto wlan1

iface wlan1 inet static

address 192.168.1.212

netmask 255.255.255.0

gateway 192.168.1.1

wpa-psk xxxxxxxx

wpa-driver wext

wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK

wpa-proto WPA2

wpa-ssid franklin

[franklin97355]

Well, after redownloading, extracting and loading files to a freshly formatted USB drive, changing the ESSID using iwconfig since changing it in interfaces did not work, adjusting the router setup and reconfiguring my wifes computer after she yelled at me that she no longer could get to the network (darn router security) I have a GadgetPC that can see the network! I\'ll let you know how I\'m doing with the rest of my project as it progresses. Thanks for all the help you guys have given me in my quest for communications.