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stunirvana21 n00b
Joined: 24 May 2011 Posts: 41
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 12:14 am Post subject: [Solved] Trouble With ipw2200 Driver |
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I don't have much experience with wireless cards but I am trying to get a Intel 2200BGN wireless card working. I have the module loaded but I don't see the interface when I do a iwconfig or lspci -v. I must be missing something simple. I tried toggling the wireless card switch and I still didn't see the interface. Any ideas?
Various information:
lsmod | grep ipw
kernel config -- I used genkernel
dmesg | grep ipw
lspci -v
Thanks
Last edited by stunirvana21 on Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:13 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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nemectic Apprentice
Joined: 20 Aug 2004 Posts: 182
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 12:23 am Post subject: |
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Is that info taken from inside your gentoo install or from running the livecd/another install? I ask because your lspci -v shows iwlwifi loaded?
Also, have you installed the relevant firmware - sys-firmware/iwl2000-ucode or sys-kernel/linux-firmware? |
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stunirvana21 n00b
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 1:21 am Post subject: |
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nemectic wrote: | Is that info taken from inside your gentoo install or from running the livecd/another install? I ask because your lspci -v shows iwlwifi loaded?
Also, have you installed the relevant firmware - sys-firmware/iwl2000-ucode or sys-kernel/linux-firmware? |
That is from inside my install. Should iwlwifi not be loaded?
I have sys-firmware/ipw2200-firmware installed. |
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nemectic Apprentice
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 1:38 am Post subject: |
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No, it should be loaded.
What's the output of
Also, you want to install net-wireless/iw instead of net-wireless/wireless-tools, then please post the output of
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stunirvana21 n00b
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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nemectic wrote: |
What's the output of
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enp1s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.202 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::ba88:e3ff:fe15:6682 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether b8:88:e3:15:66:82 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 117 bytes 90461 (88.3 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 93 bytes 7205 (7.0 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 88 bytes 7088 (6.9 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 88 bytes 7088 (6.9 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
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nemectic wrote: |
Also, you want to install net-wireless/iw instead of net-wireless/wireless-tools, then please post the output of
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Nothing is returned. I didn't remove net-wireless/wireless-tools since it is a dependency of another package. Do I need to remove it or can both coexist? |
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Gusar Advocate
Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 2665 Location: Slovenia
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Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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ipw2200 = "Intel Pro Wireless 2200", but you have "Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2200". Not the same thing. One is almost ten years old and shipped with Pentium-M machines, the other is fairly new. iwlwifi is the right driver for you, and the required firmware is in the linux-firmware package.
Also, if you intend to use iwconfig/iwlist and wpa_supplicant with -Dwext, don't forget to activate wext compatibility in the kernel. Or use iw and wpa_supplicant with -Dnl80211 |
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stunirvana21 n00b
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Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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Gusar wrote: | ipw2200 = "Intel Pro Wireless 2200", but you have "Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2200". Not the same thing. One is almost ten years old and shipped with Pentium-M machines, the other is fairly new. iwlwifi is the right driver for you, and the required firmware is in the linux-firmware package.
Also, if you intend to use iwconfig/iwlist and wpa_supplicant with -Dwext, don't forget to activate wext compatibility in the kernel. Or use iw and wpa_supplicant with -Dnl80211 |
Well it helps when I try to install the correct firmware.
Thanks. |
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