[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 1:01 p.m.
>>To: Wellington Linux Users Group
>>Subject: Re: [wellylug] Wireless Network help
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>>Geraint M. Jones wrote:
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>>>>-----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
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>>>>>- 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.
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>>>>>-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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>>>>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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>>>G
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>>It just comes up with
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>>XANIVPXHB33:~# modprobe ipw2200
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>>XANIVPXHB33:~#
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>I was after the output from iwconfig ;-)
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Hey thanks for trying to help, I am finally running it using the 
wireless card now, after doing a bit of investigation I found out that I 
needed to update the kernel through xandros networks.

I really do appreciate your efforts

Oh and I might as well ask you, I want to install Gaim though I am not 
to sure what one I would need to download for Xandros, I see they have 
different versions for things like fedora etc and numbers like i368 and 
i586. I wouldnt have a clue on what those mean or what I need to download

Cheers

Steve