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Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem



On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 14:53:13 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:

> 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)

Looks ok.

> sarah@debian-wheezy:~$ iwconfig
> bash: iwconfig: command not found
> sarah@debian-wheezy:~$ su
> Password:

Probably no need for this. Try /sbin/iwconfig

> 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.

'/sbin/modinfo ipw2200' and look at "firmware" and "depends" lines.

> 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>


If that is all you have that's not right. Delete the file and reboot; it
will be regenerated.


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