Re: Laptop wireless problem

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 02 July 2016 15:33:40 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Lisi Reisz wrote on 07/02/16 02:15:
> > The built in wireless on teh Dell Inspiron 9300 suddenly stopped working.
> > Having poked around a bit with wicd and network-manager (not
> > simultaneously),
>
> <snip>
>
> > sarah@debian-wheezy:~$ grep wifi /proc/modules
> > rtlwifi 45511 2 rtl8192cu,rtl_usb, Live 0xf829b000
> > mac80211 425575 3 rtl8192cu,rtl_usb,rtlwifi, Live 0xf8a02000
> > cfg80211 350041 4 rtlwifi,mac80211,ipw2200,libipw, Live 0xf8313000
> > sarah@debian-wheezy:~$
>
> Is the builtin wireless card from Intel?
> Which one exactly?

Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection driver: ipw2200 (from 
inxi -F)

> What is the output of 
>
>   lspci -v | grep -i -A8 network

root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah#  lspci -v | grep -i -A8 network
03:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] 
Network Connection (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dell Latitude D600
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
        Memory at dfcfd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: ipw2200

root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah#


> In case it's really Intel, is the package firmware-iwlwifi installed?
It wasn't.  Is now in the process of installing.  Odd.  It has been working 
for several years and stopped suddenly late on Friday afternoon.  But I had 
been upgrading and various things, so....

> Which 
> version 
firmware-iwlwifi 0.43

> and which kernel version? 
Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u2
>
> What is the output of
>
>   rfkill list

root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# 

Thank you, jvp,

Lisi