[SOLVED]Debian help

[Patrick S.]

Hey,
I'm trying to install a netgear WNA1100 USB Wi-Fi card on a debian 6.0.6(Squeeze) system.
I have an iBook G3 and the on board Wi-Fi can't connect to WPA2.
I found instructions on how to install, but my linux/debian expierence is very limited.
I installed the netinst version(I used the hard line from my desktop to download the extra packages).
I found instructions on how to download the what is needed here: http://wiki.debian.org/ath9k_htc#Installation .
Reading other blogs and forums I found that I needed to add:

# Backported packages for Debian Squeeze/6.0
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main contrib non-free

to the file: /etc/apt/sources.list
When I do this it loads(using nano), but it's empty and when I try to save it says the file or directory doesn't exists.(I also tried running it as a command didn't work)

Anyone got an idea on what's wrong and how to fix it? Or if i'm just doing something wrong?

 

[Jake]

Re: Debian help

Did you run it as root? (prefix sudo)

This can some times not allow nano to save to a directory.

Make sure your running just about everything as root user.

 

[AndroidOS]

Re: Debian help

Make sure your running just about everything as root user.

I'm not trying to undermine you here Jake, but never, ever run everything as root, unless you know what you are doing. You could do some serious damage to your system.

 

[Patrick S.]

Re: Debian help

*UPDATE* I have fixed this.
When I got to the code to install I ran into a text-document. Seeing as I thought it was at the end I quit there(not knowing how to leave it) this time I got it to install correctly and it is working now.

 

[Jake]

Make sure your running just about everything as root user.

I'm not trying to undermine you here Jake, but never, ever run everything as root, unless you know what you are doing. You could do some serious damage to your system.

I didn't mean it in that way, I meant prefixing sudo. :3

Good job, Patrick. Atta way to linux it up.