Thank you, Bob, for such a mammoth contribution. On Friday 06 December 2013 23:04:49 Bob Proulx wrote: > 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. > > Is the wifi access point you are trying to connect to a hidden > network?
No. [snip] > > lsmod reveals that the module ipw2200 is there. > > The ipw2200 is used on a lot of ThinkPads and it was on my previous > one. It works very well. But I would sometimes, rarely, need to > unload the module and reload it again or it would not connect. I > don't know if this is what you are seeing but it is possible. > Reloading it is safe (quicker than rebooting) and won't hurt. It > causes a full device reset and initialization. > > # rmmod ipw2200 ; sleep 1; modprobe ipw2200 This worked!! \o/ What a pity that I went to bed early last night. I might have had a better night if I had read this before I did so. ;-) I have done one reboot. I shall try another. I hardly dare believe it! Thank you so much, Brian. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201312070822.05470.lisi.re...@gmail.com
