Help needed with wireless on a Thinkpad X40
Hi. I recently installed Debian stable (wheezy 7.6) on a Thinkpad X40, with
the following network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG
[Calexico2]
The installer complained about the required non-free firmware being
unavailable. First thing I did was install it, `firmware-ipw2x00`. I
installed `wicd` as a network manager and `wicd-curses` as a user interface.
However, no APs are found at my place - my other notebook finds several with
good signal. The wireless light on the Thinkpad does a single blink every
~5s. Fn+F5, which should toggle the wi-fi, seems to have no effect
whatsoever.
I tried installing the `iw` package, which was needed for the wireless on my
other notebook with an Intel card to work, but that didn't help. Using
`network-manager` instead of `wicd` didn't help either.
I tried following the instructions on Debian's wiki on ipw2200, which was
basically reloading the module with modprobe, but that was of no avail. I
tried following the instructions on some support forums that consisted
basically of restarting things, but nothing worked.
dmesg | grep -i ipw
http://pastebin.com/K7mVy8w2
Shows what seems to me as a working module. So I'm kinda lost here... Any
help is appreciated.
Kernel is 3.2.0-4-486
iwconfig
http://pastebin.com/SLhA86Af
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