Tenda W311U and Debian

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 10:16:20AM -0400, Giles Orr wrote:
> Sorry, I didn't say: what's wrong is that I have no network interface
> despite the appearance that everything is working correctly.  I've
> tried "ifconfig ra0 up" as root (that's the interface name that showed
> on the Ubuntu laptop) just in case that would help, but it didn't.
> 
> You're also correct that I should check both sticks with the Ubuntu
> laptop to verify that they both work and see if I can determine if
> they're functionally the same.  I'll try to do that tonight.

ifconfig -a.  Does it call it eth or wlan or something?  Recent kernels
have changed a lot of the wireless cards to use more standard names.

I tend to use network manager for wifi these days, in which case nm-tool
is pretty handy for viewing state of things.  It's a bit hard to configure
without the gnome gui tool unfortunately.

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Len Sorensen
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