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sweetthdevil

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Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 417

wifi instalation issue - ipw2200

Hi all,

Installing arch on a toshiba satellite M40 with
$ lspci | grep -i net
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
06:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)

Now I followed the wiki and install the firmware for the ipw2200 and launch those module - and WICD to controle the network, but WICD doesn't recognise the wireless connection and when running iwconfig this is the output I get:

$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11bg  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
          Power Management:off
          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

I am searched the forum and wiki but coultn'd find any help,

Any idea where I am getting it wrong?

many thanks for your time,

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: wifi instalation issue - ipw2200

You provide too little info to fully receive help. Have you configured wicd to use eth1? ipw2200 is one of the few remaining drivers that doesn't use the usual wlan* naming. Then, have you tried other managers, like netcfg? Or even setting up the network manually? Finally, the first place to always look at if you have hardware issues is dmesg.

sweetthdevil

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Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 417

Re: wifi instalation issue - ipw2200

Right,

even if not enough information were provided you still managed to resolve my issue - I removed wicd and installed network-manager and it work right away.
I only wanted to installed wicd because it remember the wep/wpa key. I guess there is a way to do so with gnome-keyring?

Parameter

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From: Estonia

Registered: 2011-09-17

Posts: 3

Re: wifi instalation issue - ipw2200

According to the wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Networkmanager), gnome-keyring could be used in conjugation with NetworkManager to store authentication information, which should indeed include wep/wpa key.

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