Re: Please help with - it seems - no WiFi interface at all
On Monday 29 June 2015 16:53:22 Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes:
> > Glad to hear you've got it working.
>
> Thanks, it was thanks to you listers' help.
>
> > For cases where the linux drivers *don't* work, the windows driver can be
> > used with ndiswrapper.
> >
> > In the case of my Zyxel G302v3, I blacklist the rtl8180 module (which
> > thinks it can drive the card but cannot), download and unpack G-302
> > v3_7.00.zip from the realtek website, and feed WIN7X86/NET8185.inf into
> > ndiswrapper.
>
> In the case of my TL-WN725N, the driver was proably just in that
> firmware-realtek Debian package suggested by Sven, because after its
> installation the device began to flash. Since then it was probably just a
> problem of configuration.
>
> > I don't know what hardware you have, but some older laptops came with
> > *optional* wireless, so that might explain it "not working". Do the
> > FCC/CE stickers give any clues?
>
> The fabricant specifications say that my old Hyundai laptop has an Intel
> PRO/Wireless 2200BG, whose driver, according to
> https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi, should be in the firmware-ipw2x00 Debian
> package which I installed via aptitude but with no effect. Looking better
> at them, I notice now, next to the device name, the word `Options' put
> within brackets:
>
> Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG (Options)
>
> , that recalls what you say about `optional' wireless in older laptops...
> So does that mean it's not present in my machine?
I can't believe you have a hardware wireless switch, and no wireless. Whether
it could be got going, or is terminally ill, or even dead, is another matter.
And is academic now anyway. ;-)
Lisi
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