[wellylug] Wireless Network help

[Steve]

Geraint M. Jones wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: wellylug-bounces at lists.wellylug.org.nz [mailto:wellylug-
>>bounces at lists.wellylug.org.nz] On Behalf Of Steve
>>Sent: Monday, 27 March 2006 11:34 a.m.
>>To: Wellington Linux Users Group
>>Subject: Re: [wellylug] Wireless Network help
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>>Jo Booth wrote:
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>>>On 27/03/2006, at 10:50 , Steve wrote:
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>>>>>upon restarting the laptop after it was installed the wireless
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>>network
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>>>>>card no longer works.
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>>>>Geraint M. Jones wrote:
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>>>>>Try this command in a command shell
>>>>>iwconfig
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>>>>XANIVPXHB33:~# iwconfig
>>>>lo        no wireless extensions.
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>>>>eth0      no wireless extensions.
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>>>Hrm,  sounds like no wifi module loaded or no driver auto-detected
>>>for the card?
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>>>Is there any output in system log or dmesg that points to a failing
>>>driver?
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>>>Or is it just your wifi card is off? Check your laptop documentation
>>>- and make sure the wifi is on - and maybe try a reboot? (Don't
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>laugh
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>>>- I had one of them last week)
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>>>What hardware spec is your laptop? what wifi card/chipset?
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>>>Sorry, hopefully someone can help further.
>>>
>>>-Jo
>>>[busy at work]
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>>Ok The laptop does not have a button to turn the laptop wifi card on
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>>all. When I first installed Xandros the wireless network card was
>>working fine. It was what I used to download Service pack 2 off the
>>internet. Once it was all installed I was asked to restart the
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>computer.
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>>It was from then that the wireless card stopped working
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>>Sorry about my terminolgy as I am new to linux
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>>The type of network card is
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>>pro/wireless 2200bg
>>kerneldrivers ipw2200
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>Hi again
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>Launch->Applications->System->Administrator Tools->Cosole 
>type: modprobe ipw2200
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>then: iwconfig
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>and paste your results
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It just comes up with

XANIVPXHB33:~# modprobe ipw2200

XANIVPXHB33:~#