Re: Intel 2200BG/Linux

Re: Intel 2200BG/Linux

[Julian Calaby]

Hi,

Firstly, always Reply-All, that way other people on the list will see
your emails, and may be able to help if I can't.

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:31 AM, D <dc@magitekindustries.com> wrote:
> I'm not having any luck with this. The os is bt5 which it's a build of Ubuntu

Ok, so can you confirm that the ipw2200 driver is actually loaded. You
can do this using the lsmod command.

Are there any errors or warnings in the kernel log (see the output from dmesg)

Have you installed the firmware?

Thanks,

Julian Calaby

> Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 3:33 PM, DC <DC@magitekindustries.com> wrote:
>>>    I'm having the hardest time in the world getting this card to work
>>> with Linux. Can you help me?
>>
>>You need to use the ipw2200 driver, and you need the firmware.
>>
>>The driver should already be in your distro's kernel, and the firmware
>>should be available through it's package repository.
>>
>>E.g. in Debian, the firmware is available in the firmware-ipw2x00 package.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
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>>
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Re: Intel 2200BG/Linux

[DC]

Didn't know it was a party line. On it.

I haven't been able to get the driver to load. The download on the site
doesn't work.

The firmware should be installed on the card, because the card runs
perfectly on the windows side of the drive, but if it needs to be
installed on Linux, then no, it's likely not.

But again, the page has no download link.



On 5/17/12 7:46 PM, Julian Calaby wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Firstly, always Reply-All, that way other people on the list will see
> your emails, and may be able to help if I can't.
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:31 AM, D <dc@magitekindustries.com> wrote:
>> I'm not having any luck with this. The os is bt5 which it's a build of Ubuntu
> Ok, so can you confirm that the ipw2200 driver is actually loaded. You
> can do this using the lsmod command.
>
> Are there any errors or warnings in the kernel log (see the output from dmesg)
>
> Have you installed the firmware?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Julian Calaby
>
>> Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 3:33 PM, DC <DC@magitekindustries.com> wrote:
>>>>    I'm having the hardest time in the world getting this card to work
>>>> with Linux. Can you help me?
>>> You need to use the ipw2200 driver, and you need the firmware.
>>>
>>> The driver should already be in your distro's kernel, and the firmware
>>> should be available through it's package repository.
>>>
>>> E.g. in Debian, the firmware is available in the firmware-ipw2x00 package.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Julian Calaby
>>>
>>> Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com
>>> Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/
>>> .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/
>
>

Re: Intel 2200BG/Linux

[Julian Calaby]

Hi,

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:02 PM, DC <DC@magitekindustries.com> wrote:
> I haven't been able to get the driver to load. The download on the site
> doesn't work.

Where are you downloading it from.

The driver should already be installed in BackTrack 5.

Could you please check the output of the lsmod command to see if the
driver has been loaded?

Then check the kernel logs using the dmesg command to see if there are
any messages or errors about this driver. If the firmware is not
available, it will complain about this in the kernel log.

Without that information, we can't really help you.

> The firmware should be installed on the card, because the card runs
> perfectly on the windows side of the drive, but if it needs to be
> installed on Linux, then no, it's likely not.

The firmware for a device is generally built into windows drivers, and
is always separate from the kernel part of Linux drivers. It is very
rare that firmware is actually built into computer components, even if
they need it.

I would be surprised if BackTrack doesn't have a package called
"firmware-ipw2x00" or something similar that contains the firmware.
Install that package with a package manager or the software center and
the firmware will be installed in the correct place to be loaded by
the driver.

> But again, the page has no download link.

Which page?

Thanks,

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Re: Intel 2200BG/Linux

[Julian Calaby]

Hi,

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:35 PM,  <dc@magitekindustries.com> wrote:
> [ 18.522100] ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2

You do not have the firmware installed.

Your distro should have a package called "firmware-ipw2x00" that you
can install. This package will set it all up automatically.

Otherwise, unpacking the firmware to /lib/firmware should fix your problem.

Thanks,

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Re: Intel 2200BG/Linux

[D]

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Re: Intel 2200BG/Linux

[Julian Calaby]

Hi,

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 8:29 AM, D <dc@magitekindustries.com> wrote:
> Apt-get didn't find it

You can use apt-cache to search for it.

Thanks,

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Re: Intel 2200BG/Linux

[Julian Calaby]

Hi,

You dropped the CCs again.

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:57 AM, D <dc@magitekindustries.com> wrote:
> Copying the folder to lib and lib\firmware didn't work.  how do I Install that package?

You should be copying the files not the folder.

Use a package manager - say, synaptic, software center, aptitude,
apt-get or something equivalent.

Thanks,

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Intel 2200BG/Linux

[DC]

    I'm having the hardest time in the world getting this card to work
with Linux. Can you help me?

Re: Intel 2200BG/Linux

[Arend van Spriel]

On 05/06/2012 07:33 AM, DC wrote:
>     I'm having the hardest time in the world getting this card to work
> with Linux. Can you help me?

I believe you should use the ipw2x00 driver. I cc'ed the listed
maintainer. Hope the info is still accurate.

You might get better help if you provide as much details as possible on
the steps you already tried so they can skip suggesting things you
already tried.

Gr. AvS

Re: Intel 2200BG/Linux

[Julian Calaby]

Hi,

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 3:33 PM, DC <DC@magitekindustries.com> wrote:
>    I'm having the hardest time in the world getting this card to work
> with Linux. Can you help me?

You need to use the ipw2200 driver, and you need the firmware.

The driver should already be in your distro's kernel, and the firmware
should be available through it's package repository.

E.g. in Debian, the firmware is available in the firmware-ipw2x00 package.

Thanks,

-- 
Julian Calaby

Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com
Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/
.Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/