Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem
On Saturday 02 July 2016 14:07:45 deloptes wrote:
> Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > Where next?
>
> reload wifi kernel modules and get dmesg
>
> try iwlconfig
>
> check if you have the appropriate firmware
sarah@debian-wheezy:~$ dmesg | grep 2200
[ 11.175897] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver,
1.2.2kmprq
[ 11.175902] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 11.176356] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[ 11.328328] ipw2200 0000:03:03.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware
ipw2200-bss.fw
[ 11.461720] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZD (13 802.11bg channels, 0
802.11a channels)
sarah@debian-wheezy:~$ iwconfig
bash: iwconfig: command not found
sarah@debian-wheezy:~$ su
Password:
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# lsmod | grep wifi
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# lsmod | grep wlan
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# lsmod | grep 2200
ipw2200 130216 0
libipw 29891 1 ipw2200
cfg80211 350041 2 libipw,ipw2200
lib80211 12829 2 libipw,ipw2200
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah#
I don't know which of the above kernel modules to reload and I have been
rebooting frequently for various reasons - which reloads kernel modules.
Some more information, a quote from /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
<quote>
# PCI device 0x8086:0x4220 (ipw2200)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
</quote>
So it appears that it isn't seeing some relevant driver, or part of it, at
that point in time.
Lisi
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