Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem
On Monday 04 July 2016 17:37:00 Brian wrote:
> On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 15:37:42 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Monday 04 July 2016 15:16:23 Brian wrote:
> >
> > It isn't. It is just a short quotation to show the ipw 2200 and the
> > DRIVERS=="?*", because it bothered me that the drivers bit just had a
> > question mark, but apparently my worry about that was misplaced. Whole
> > file beneath my signature.
>
> Full quotes are always preferable. If I were in your position I'd
> regenerate the file. You've possibly got at least one device there
> which is not on the machine.
No. I left the commented out line in case I needed to revert to it. It
regenerated eth1, so I manually edited it to wlan0, but left the other line
tehr ein case.
> Let the system take care of things.
>
> Be that as it may, you appear to have all necessary firmware and
> drivers. So, how do you fancy a bit of low level stuff?
>
> Reboot and first check firmware loading from 'journalctl'.
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# journalctl -b | grep 2200
Jul 04 18:01:31 debian-wheezy kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915
Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
Jul 04 18:01:31 debian-wheezy kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel
Corporation
Jul 04 18:01:31 debian-wheezy kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless
2200BG Network Connection
Jul 04 18:01:31 debian-wheezy kernel: ipw2200 0000:03:03.0: firmware:
direct-loading firmware ipw2200-bss.fw
Jul 04 18:01:31 debian-wheezy kernel: ipw2200: Detected geography ZZD (13
802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
Jul 04 18:01:48 debian-wheezy NetworkManager[1240]: <info> rfkill0: found WiFi
radio killswitch
(at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:03:03.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill0)
(driver ipw2200)
Jul 04 18:01:48 debian-wheezy NetworkManager[1240]: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11
WiFi device (driver: 'ipw2200' ifindex: 3)
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah#
> Then
> issue the command 'wpa_cli'.
>
> 1. wpa-cli
> You get a prompt ">". This is interactive mode. A selected
> interface should be shown. TAB completion of commands works.
> Command history is with the UP and DOWN keys. The following
> commands are typed at the prompt.
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# wpa-cli
bash: wpa-cli: command not found
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# aptitude search wpa-supplicant
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# aptitude search wpa_supplicant
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# aptitude search net-tools
i net-tools -
NET-3 networking toolkit
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# aptitude search wireless-tools
i A wireless-tools -
Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah#
plus a good deal of Googling. I am stuck. Of what package is wpa-cli a part?
Where will I find it??
Ah!! We have wpa-cli AND wpa_cli. Let's try wpa_cli
root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# wpa_cli
wpa_cli v2.3
Copyright (c) 2004-2014, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors
This software may be distributed under the terms of the BSD license.
See README for more details.
Selected interface 'wlan0'
Interactive mode
<3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
> add_network
0
<3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
> set_network 0 ssid NETGEAR08
FAIL
> set_network 0 ssid netgear08
FAIL
<3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
> add_network
1
<3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS artwh
> set_network psk xxxxxxx
Invalid SET_NETWORK command: needs three arguments
(network id, variable name, and value)
>
I'm stuck. Or out of my depth. Or drowning. Or all three. :-( But there
seesm ot be a problem with my SSID Not set by me - perhaps I should change
it. :-(
Help!!!
Lisi
> 2. add_network
> You'll probably get 0 for the network number.
>
> 3. set_network 0 ssid "Your_SSID"
> The response should be "OK".
>
> 4. set_network psk "Your_passphrase"
> The response should be "OK".
>
> 5. enable_network 0
> The response should be "OK". Authentication and association
> should take place.
>
> 6. status 0
> Has it?
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