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Tony Sumner wrote: | | 2 I apt-got the wireless driver linux-wlan-ng and installed it.
I'd have used the Prism2 drivers in the default kernel. Although eventually everything will use the wlan-ng framework I believe, the various wireless projects are merging in Linux. It is far easier just to slap in the wireless tools, and load up the included drivers than install the wlan-ng if all you have is generic Prism2 802.11b. For some more complex wireless configurations the wlan-ng stuff is desirable.
| 7 Alt 7, back to kde. The keyboard is now quite dead and the ethernet led | on the router is not flickering. CTRL-ALT-F1 no go. | 8 Go off to write this down while I remember it. | 9 I unplug and replug the router, fire up Windows and everything works. | 10 I log out of Windows, unplug ethernet, plug in the wireless adapter | and boot up. The keyboard is dead. The adapter is fine of course | because I can log in on a VT and work normally. I just can't get to | kde. | | My conclusion is that debian is seriously flaky.
Hmm, I would suspect some sort of hardware compatibility issue, I've seen interrupts conflicts between keyboards and other devices cause a similar issue with a mouse. Also beaware of cold and warm reboots doing different things, running Windows is a good way to alter the nehaviour if you only do a warm reboot. Always switch off for 5 seconds when rebooting for troubleshooting purposes.
| 11 In /etc/network/interfaces there is a line 'auto eth0 on'. I comment | that out and try again. No change. | | Can you tell me please how I stop the boot sequence trying to bring eth0 | up? Short of clawing the card out. That might just be the solution.
Removing the card, and seeing if this resolves the keyboard issue would at least point at a conflict of some sort. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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