On Friday 06 December 2013 11:21:45 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> I am having trouble with a Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless
> 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300 running a freshly installed Wheezy.
> It is not successfully creating a wireless connection. lsmod
> reveals that the module ipw2200 is there.
>
> I use an access list for wireless appliances on my router, and the
> correct MAC code for the laptop in question is there. (I just
> checked!) Ifconfig -a finds the card.
>
> I have googled, with a singular lack of success. I have installled
> a backported kernel. Nada. Though, of course, with this card one
> might expect an older kernel to be what is needed. Would it be a
> good idea to find and install an _old_ kernel?
>
> I had this card working in Squeeze, without, so far as I can
> remember, problems.
>
> Lisi
More information:
lspci grep wireless comes up blank, but just lspci gives (!)
<quote>
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML
Express
Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI
Express
Root Port (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation
82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
AC'97
Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface
Bridge
(rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA
Controller
(rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
SMBus
Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee
ATI
RV370 [Mobility Radeon X300]
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0
100Base-TX
(rev 02)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
03:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller
(rev
08)
03:01.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro
Host
Adapter (rev 17)
03:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG
[Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah#
</quote>
And iwconfig gives:
<quote>
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah#
</quote>
Thanks,
Lisi
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