On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 03:20:19PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 06 December 2013 13:09:49 Celejar wrote: > > Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> 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. > > > > What do the logs show when you insert the module, and try to bring > > up the interface? Are you using any sort of encryption? > > No - just managed access. > > I wasn't sure which logs. Here is the wicd one. As you can see, I > have been trying all day. > > To make sense of the times it mentions, I am on GMT and the time as I > type is 15:19. > <quote> > 2013/12/06 07:57:07 :: --------------------------- > 2013/12/06 07:57:07 :: wicd initializing... > 2013/12/06 07:57:07 :: --------------------------- > 2013/12/06 07:57:07 :: wicd is version 1.7.2.4 768 > 2013/12/06 07:57:07 :: did not find backend in configuration, setting > default external > 2013/12/06 07:57:07 :: setting backend to external > 2013/12/06 07:57:07 :: trying to load backend external > 2013/12/06 07:57:07 :: successfully loaded backend external > 2013/12/06 07:57:07 :: trying to load backend external > 2013/12/06 07:57:07 :: successfully loaded backend external > 2013/12/06 07:57:07 :: Couldn't detect a wireless interface. OK. So wicd couldn't detect a wireless interface. Your later message shows that iwconfig can see it as eth1. Have you told wicd that eth1 is your wireless interface (IIRC, its default is to try wlan0)? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] 201312061520.19109.lisi.reisz@gmail.com">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 201312061520.19109.lisi.reisz@gmail.com >
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