Re: Fwd: Network manager not handling interfaces



On Wednesday 23 of November 2011 03:54:47 Githin Alapatt wrote:
> I solved part of it -
> 
> I had not upgraded the kernel and the udev after dist-upgrade. I did
> that today and I can now control the wired device using
> network-manager.
> 
Great.

> However, I still cannot use my wlan0. I will check on that and post my
> findings.
>
0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312
802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

Your Wi-Fi chip is supported by b43 driver, according to 
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43.
However the kernel version has to be 2.6.33+, and Debian squeeze have 2.6.32, 
I think. So, maybe you should use 'wl' driver instead:
http://wiki.debian.org/wl#supported

> Thanks for all the info!
You're welcome.

Jirka


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