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

[duh <heyyouthere12000@aim.com>]

On 06/28/2015 10:49 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Nick Metz<nick.metz@fhe3.com>  writes:
>
>    
> > Ah.. sorry you have the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG right?
> >
> > did you modprobe ipw2200 ?? I cant ' t find it on your output of lsmod
> >      
> Then, after installing firmware-ipw2x00, I did:
>
>   # modprobe ipw2200
>
> , but still nothing seemed to be changed in all the outputs of the various
> commands given before.  But yesterday I'd bought a small wireless USB adaptor,
> called TP-Link.  I plugged it in the pc, and... a wlan0 entry finally came out
> from ifconfig output!  Then, as suggested in
> https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse, I did:
>
> # ip a
> # iwconfig
> # ip link set wlan0 up
> # iwlist scan
>
> , then put in /etc/network/interface the follwing stuff:
>
> # my wifi device
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>          wireless-essid InfostradaWiFi-A8C345
>          wireless-mode Master
>
> , but there must be something wrong with it, because there are now issues at
> machine boot and, anyway, it still won't connect in WiFi mode.  But maybe the
> solution is coming.  What should I do now?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rodolfo
>
>
>    
Hopefully my comment/question is helpful and not a distraction.
Should 'wireless-mode Master'  actually need to be
'wireless-mode Managed'     ???'