There are different commands for getting the wireless ethernet card working
and the wired one. Lets start with wireless since we're further along there.
After I explain how to get the wireless card working, you will probably be
able to get the wired card working by yourself.
So what I did was google for 'linux driver 2915ABG '. That showed me that
the driver for your card is called ipw2200. You can tell if the driver for
that card is loaded with the lsmod command. Type 'lsmod' . This will give
a list of aall the drivers currently loaded. The first column is the
driver name. It may be easier for you to find the driver if you type 'lsmod
| grep ipw2200'.
The grep command is a string search program. So 'lsmod | grep ipw2200' says
run lsmod, "pipe" the output to the grep command, and search for the string
ipw220.
If you can't find the driver with lsmod, That means it is not loaded. In
that case, you would type 'modprobe -v ipw2200'.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jürgen Dengo" <jyrgen.dengo@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: No wireless interfaces displaied
I went to the windows environment and checked out that I have.
Field Value
Bus 1, Device 2, Function 0 Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
and
Field Value
Bus 1, Device 1, Function 0 Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
[A/B/C]
Hopefully this helps, I found other's having problems with the support for
this card too, but ubuntu seemed to handle it correctly.
With regards
Jürgen Dengo
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: No wireless interfaces displaied
I'm thinking that "not turned on" means the drivers were not loaded.
A driver is a program the operating system uses to control a piece of
hardware like a wireless ethernet card. If you don't load the driver,
the operating system doesn't know the the device even exists. With
wireless cards, they identify themselves via a string of text which you
can see if you run the 'discover' command. That string is used by the
operating system to identify the card and then the proper driver is
supposed to be loaded automatically. So something went wrong there when
you installed etch.
If this is a fairly new laptop, it is possible that the driver wasn't
available at the time when the installation CD you used was crated. What
you need to do is find out which driver (if any) is used with your
ethernet card and load the driver. Run either the lspci command or the
discover command and find out exactly which wireless ethernet card you
have. Post that info to this list and then we can figure out which driver
will work with your card.
I installed finally my debian etch system and managed to install the
wireless-tools package. I ran the iwconfig command and the system showd
that now wireless interfaces were supported or found. I did it all in the
console. Then I handed it over to my instructor, he told that the network
cards were turned off, but after turning them on, there was no change.
Should I have ran an iwlist command first and if there's a way to solve
this problem, please answer.
With regards
Jürgen Dengo
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