no wireless in Debian on laptop intel 2915ABG
I booted a Debian 6 LiveCD to try out KDE4, on my older Dell laptop. This laptop has an intel 2915ABG wireless setup. Right now I have PeppermintOS install wireless works just fine. with Debian, after I booted, I looked at : $ dmesg | less +/Network and found this: ipw2200 :02:03.0:firmware: requesting ipw2200-bss.fw failed: Reason -2 ipw2200: unable to load firmware: -2 ipw2200: failed to register network device ipw2200: probe of :02:03.0 failed with error -5 so, now we know it FAILS, but WHY... I googled, but didn't see any resolution ( except for 1 Mandriva..) I installed the firmware-ipw2x00 from the non-free source also downloaded from ipw2200.sourceforge.net nothing worked. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cf50b71.7010...@pcartwright.com
Re: no wireless in Debian on laptop intel 2915ABG
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:34:25 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: (...) ipw2200 :02:03.0:firmware: requesting ipw2200-bss.fw failed: Reason -2 ipw2200: unable to load firmware: -2 ipw2200: failed to register network device ipw2200: probe of :02:03.0 failed with error -5 so, now we know it FAILS, but WHY... I googled, but didn't see any resolution ( except for 1 Mandriva..) I installed the firmware-ipw2x00 from the non-free source also downloaded from ipw2200.sourceforge.net nothing worked. Did you follow these steps? http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200#InstallationonEstablishedSystems (after the installation of firmware blob, reload the module) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.11.30.14.48...@gmail.com
Re: no wireless in Debian on laptop intel 2915ABG-SOLVED
On 11/30/2010 09:48 AM, Camaleón wrote: I googled, but didn't see any resolution ( except for 1 Mandriva..) I installed the firmware-ipw2x00 from the non-free source also downloaded from ipw2200.sourceforge.net nothing worked. Did you follow these steps? http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200#InstallationonEstablishedSystems (after the installation of firmware blob, reload the module) Greetings, I did not. I didn't do the wireless-tools app.. or the modprobe -r;modprobe I think I did that part backwards ( stumbling around..) that worked!!! it must be this part that I didn't do: modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200 now I can install Debian on my laptop! -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cf514de.3090...@pcartwright.com
Re: no wireless in Debian on laptop intel 2915ABG-SOLVED
On 11/30/2010 09:48 AM, Camaleón wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200#InstallationonEstablishedSystems (after the installation of firmware blob, reload the module) I did not. I didn't do the wireless-tools app.. or the modprobe -r;modprobe I think I did that part backwards ( stumbling around..) that worked!!! it must be this part that I didn't do: modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200 -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800
