Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

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