Linuxers,
I am on Debian Lenny, and have a Compaq laptop with Nvidia chipset and networking. I have a DSL wifi router at home which has WPA2/WPA1 security enabled and it is working fine
The problem I face is that the nvidia graphics card is only getting configured on kernel 2.6.26.and the wpa_supplicant does not connect to the router.
On the other hand on kernel 2.6.30 the wpa_supplicant is connecting properly and nvidia graphics card is not supported.
As in on kernel 2.6.30: 1. There is no nvidia-kernel module and I have tried the module-assistant method and it is not working. 2. On Sid. as soon as I install nvidia-glx the entire xserver binary files are removed.
I do not want to do a manual compile as then I will have to manually do the upgrades always.
All I want to know is any pointers in configuration that may need to be done.
Thanks, Cyril Chacko
Cyril Chacko wrote:
Linuxers,
I am on Debian Lenny, and have a Compaq laptop with Nvidia chipset and networking. I have a DSL wifi router at home which has WPA2/WPA1 security enabled and it is working fine
The problem I face is that the nvidia graphics card is only getting configured on kernel 2.6.26.and the wpa_supplicant does not connect to the router.
I am using my router with wpa and lenny with its default kernel works fine with wireless in both my laptops. I use wicd as my gui for network setup. NetworkManager was knocked off.
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Cyril Chacko cyril.chacko@gmail.com wrote:
The problem I face is that the nvidia graphics card is only getting configured on kernel 2.6.26.and the wpa_supplicant does not connect to the router.
Can you give specific details about your graphics card and wireless card? What chipset / manufacturer are they. lspci -nn output would help.
I do not want to do a manual compile as then I will have to manually do the upgrades always.
If the drivers are missing then you're looking at a manual recompile. If you dont want to get your hands dirty, I suggest you try other - more bleeding edge - distros. But that doesn't guarantee that your hardware will work out of the box.
Dinesh
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Cyril Chacko cyril.chacko@gmail.com wrote:
The problem I face is that the nvidia graphics card is only getting configured on kernel 2.6.26.and the wpa_supplicant does not connect to the router.
Can you give specific details about your graphics card and wireless card? What chipset / manufacturer are they. lspci -nn output would help.
I do not want to do a manual compile as then I will have to manually do the upgrades always.
If the drivers are missing then you're looking at a manual recompile. If you dont want to get your hands dirty, I suggest you try other - more bleeding edge - distros. But that doesn't guarantee that your hardware will work out of the box.
Generally someone may have installed Lenny on his laptop model and blogged about it so a search on the net may reveal information about the procedure.
Sorry, was not online for a while now. It seems Debian are yet to come out with the nvidia kenel module on Squeeze, so will need to get that from Sid. It is simply a support for the drivers issue.
So, will manually install the relevant packages from Sid and see how that goes.
Thanks to all for their time
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Cyril Chacko -
Dinesh Joshi -
Rony