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On 15/06/13 19:03, bad apple wrote:
I have my desktop in a small room upstairs, officially a bedroom but not used as one normally. The router and the TPlink are in the same room on a desk and are about a foot apart. The laptop is here too, so it is less than three feet from the router and the WAP.It sounds really stupid, but have you tried just getting the laptop really damn close to either of your access points? Debian seems to be trying to do the correct thing (it knows you are connecting to an ESSID and not a simple single SSID) but for reasons unknown, is not happy. Is it worth checking that you have enabled non-free and contrib in your repos, and installed ALL of the relevant firmware files? Obviously only once you have installed, of course, probably via a cable if the wifi just proves too much of a pain in the arse. Cheers
When I was trying to install Debian, to test it out I unlinked the laptop from the router (via a cable) so that it would have to use wifi for the install. It did ask for an ESSID but it seemed to see the router only and not the TPlink. Even so when I entered the SSID and the password it reported it all as not found and took me back a couple of screens to start over with the wifi questions.
Previously the same laptop was running Xubuntu 12.04. I installed it as I said with it linked via cable to the router. Then, once it was up and running, I removed the cable it found the wifi and asked me for the password. After that it just worked. If I plugged the ethernet cable back in it used that. If I took it out it reverted back to wifi automatically. But then I suppose that Xubuntu comes with more, shall we say, non-free packages.
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