On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 09:14:10AM +0530, Bhargav Prasanna wrote: > Then, i read > http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux-help/80014-intel-wireless-problems.html, > i removed all ipw files from /lib/firmware, downloaded the latest > files (ipw2200 v3.1) from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net and manually > copied all the files in the tarball to /lib/firmware and again did a > "modprobe ipw2200". Another reboot and still, my wireless isn't > working..
I hope you didn't reboot after doing the modprobe, since that may undo the modprobe... But assuming that the module is loaded every reboot, the problem would be there... > "ifconfig" outputs only two interfacces.. lo and eth0. No sign of > anything even remotely like wlan0. "iwconfig" says there are no > wireless extensions for both lo and eth0. > A ls -l /lib/firmware gives the following output: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191154 2009-05-02 17:40 ipw2200-bss.fw > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 185428 2009-05-02 17:40 ipw2200-ibss.fw > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187836 2009-05-02 17:40 ipw2200-sniffer.fw > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12007 2009-05-02 17:40 LICENSE.ipw2200-fw > > The gnome network manager also doesn't show any wireless networks. in > ubuntu, I used to see two checkboxes "Enable Wired" and "Enable > Wireless Networks".. But here, i don't see any reference to wireless > networks at all.. > > Anything I can do to solve this and make Debian detect my wireless card? I would suggest comparing the lspci output on your computer with the ones given at the bottom of the page: http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200 There are also a couple of troubleshooting tips on that page, which might help. It would be nice if you could describe part of the dmesg output which appears when you insert the module using modprobe, since that could help track down where the problem might be. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
