Re: Please help with - it seems - no WiFi interface at all
Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> writes:
> 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. ;-)
Sure it is ;-)
Rodolfo
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