Dear List,
I'm after some help with configuring the ipw2200 wireless card on my
HP tc4200 laptop running Ubuntu 6.10. I've searched all over google,
and most people say "just install network-manager and it works" but
not for me, in fact network-manager claims I have no network at all,
despite the eth0 wired connection working perfectly.
I tried following the ubuntu + ipw2200 guide at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=26623 and the more recent one
linked at the top of that page, but no luck.
Dmesg | grep ipw reports :-
[17179621.064000] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network
Driver, 1.1.2kmprq
[17179621.064000] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[17179621.064000] Driver 'ipw2200' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[17179622.080000] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[17179622.296000] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZR (14 802.11bg
channels, 0 802.11a channels)
lsmod | grep ipw reports :-
ipw2200 115652 0
ieee80211 35272 1 ipw2200
iwconfig eth1 reports :-
eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
If I manually set the SSID and key with iwconfig eth1 SSID "my_ssid"
key "S:my_key" but it makes no difference.
Network manager, network manager gnome and wpa_supplicant appear to be
installed correctly, i've tried purging them and re-installing but to
no effect :-
dpkg -l network-manager*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
ii network-manager 0.6.3-2ubuntu6 network management
framework daemon
ii network-manager-gnome 0.6.3-2ubuntu6 network management
framework (GNOME frontend)
un network-manager-kde <none> (no description available)
dpkg -l wpa*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
ii wpasupplicant 0.5.4-5 Client support for
WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)
Any bright ideas what to try next please ?
Alex.
