Re: Please help with - it seems - no WiFi interface at all

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes:
>
>> 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?

... and in the Notebook Quick Installation Guide, in correspondence of the
switch, it is written:

 Optional: Wlan Switch/TV-in Port.

Rodolfo