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[SOLVED]wlan and debian wheezy

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[SOLVED]wlan and debian wheezy

#1 Post by pythagorasmk »

I have installed debian wheezy on old computer. I cannot configure wlan interface using network manager. I cannot set Ad-Hoc setting in options. The save button is grayed and I cannot click save. What can I do?
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Re: wlan and debian wheezy

#2 Post by arochester »

1) Have you changed the sources list to include contrib and non-free?
2) Have you discovered the wifi chip?
3) Have you installed the correct wifi firmware?

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#3 Post by pythagorasmk »

arochester wrote:1) Have you changed the sources list to include contrib and non-free?
2) Have you discovered the wifi chip?
3) Have you installed the correct wifi firmware?
1) I cannot find mirror for wheezy
2) Yes rtl8192eu
3) I have installed firmware-realtek from Jessie (8.0)

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#4 Post by None1975 »

If you need to access one of the old distributions of Debian, you can find them at the Debian Archives, http://archive.debian.org/debian/.

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#5 Post by pythagorasmk »

None1975 wrote:If you need to access one of the old distributions of Debian, you can find them at the Debian Archives, http://archive.debian.org/debian/.
Thanks, I have updated my sources.list

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Re: wlan and debian wheezy

#6 Post by pythagorasmk »

I Have added this line in /etc/network/interfaces
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid myssid
wpa-psk mypsk

After ifup wlan0 I get this error mesage:
wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start
run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1

What is the problem?

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Re: wlan and debian wheezy

#7 Post by sunrat »

You will most likely have to build the driver for that chip as it is not in the kernel for Wheezy.
Follow instructions here - https://github.com/Mange/rtl8192eu-linux-driver
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Re: wlan and debian wheezy

#8 Post by pythagorasmk »

Thanks man, that was the problem.

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