Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Monday 04 July 2016 14:20:23 deloptes wrote:
>> Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
>>
>> on my one it looks like this
>>
>> # PCI device 0x8086:0x08b1 (iwlwifi)
>> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
>> ATTR{address}=="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", \
>> ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan0"
>>
>> why shouldn't it find the driver?
>
> So I am misinterpreting it. That is good news. But there is something
> badly wrong, it isn't working!!!!
>>
>> lsmod
>> iwconfig
>> dmesg
>
> sarah@debian-wheezy:~$ dmesg | grep 2200
> [ 11.175897] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver,
> 1.2.2kmprq
> [ 11.175902] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
> [ 11.176356] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network
> [ Connection 11.328328] ipw2200 0000:03:03.0: firmware: direct-loading
> [ firmware
> ipw2200-bss.fw
> [ 11.461720] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZD (13 802.11bg channels, 0
> 802.11a channels)
> sarah@debian-wheezy:~$ iwconfig
> bash: iwconfig: command not found
> sarah@debian-wheezy:~$ su
> Password:
> root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# iwconfig
> wlan0 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
>
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# lsmod | grep wifi
> root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# lsmod | grep wlan
> root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# lsmod | grep 2200
> ipw2200 130216 0
> libipw 29891 1 ipw2200
> cfg80211 350041 2 libipw,ipw2200
> lib80211 12829 2 libipw,ipw2200
> root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah#
This all looks good.
I forgot however to ask you to check rfkill again.
I still think the problem might be in the wicd and wpa_supplicant
http://linux.die.net/man/8/wicd
http://linux.die.net/man/8/wpa_supplicant
According docs there is/are log file(s) in /var/log/wicd
Some cards (via bios setting) would disable the card when you have the cable
plugged to your network card, but I think in your case it is not true.
I would backup all wicd and purge - check config etc files are not present,
install again.
Also you shouldn't have any /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file or entry
in /etc/network/interfaces.
Some Gentoo people had similar issues after upgrade but the wicd is 1.7.1
there https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-914678-start-0.html
Lets doublecheck if all requried is install
# dpkg -l | grep wireless | grep -v trinit
ii crda 3.13-1
amd64 wireless Central Regulatory Domain Agent
ii iw 3.17-1
amd64 tool for configuring Linux wireless devices
ii rfkill 0.5-1
amd64 tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices
ii wireless-regdb 2014.11.18-1
all wireless regulatory database
ii wireless-tools 30~pre9-8
amd64 Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions
I've been using the ipw2200 for few years on one siemens-fujitsu notebook
with out issues. There was first debian and then ubuntu on it. Strange that
you can not suddenly connect.
Perhaps you can try with a live ubuntu just to see if it works
regards
