Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200 (Need a little Help.. or a Lot)

Hello,

I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Z580, Which I would Love to get BT5R3 working completely on, but for the life of me, I can't figure out Which drivers I need. I downloaded the iWlwifi as well as the 80211 files from http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi

I have tried all afternoon to get these working, I would love a little help, or some step by step instructions on installing and updating the driver modules etc.

Thank You!!

You might want to download the firmware-iwlwifi ver 0.36

Please read here: (go to wheezy section), and read supported devices for 3.2 kernels and above. Your card supported...http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi

To download the 0.36 you links in the same page or download it here: http://mmc.geofisica.unam.mx/debian/...mware-nonfree/ ( with the name of ---> firmware-iwlwifi_0.36_all.deb)..

Luck.

Thanks for the information, I will be working through this over the weekend. Question though, Backtrack is based on Ubuntu, is it an easy feet to install Debian drivers? Just a recompile? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I will be doing some research on this tonight. Also, would you know which drivers would work best for injection on the ALFA AWUS036NEH??

Thanks!!

Well, Ubuntu is based on debian. No problem at all..

Luck

Ok, I followed the instructions in the link you posted;

Step One:

--> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free

this throws me an error of 'deb' unknown

Step Two:

--> aptitude update && aptitude install firmware-iwlwifi_0.36_all.deb wireless-tools

this throws me there the error that nothing is found at this location, so nothing will be downloaded and installed. I am assuming this is because of the first step no working??

And after the other steps are followed nothing. which would be expected.

I am guessing that the first step is trying to add another location from which to download the files?? so I am assuming that something is not correct in what I typed.

little help or explanation please.

Thanks!!

OK,

made some progress, got the source location loaded, and have apt-get downloading the new drivers, but after they are downloaded, they error out on install.

The file that is downloaded is:

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ Wheezy/non-free firmware-iwlwifi_0.36_all.deb

which as far as I can tell is correct.

when it goes through the unpacking, is where the error start showing up, so I deleted and attempted to redownload a few times, but no success. I rebooted and tries again, but no success.

Here is the error:

dpkg-deb: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/firmware-iwlwifi_0.36_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-100-5.ucode', which is also in package linux-firmware 0:2.0-bt7
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste likked by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/firmware-iwlwifi_0.36_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

any ideas on the fix?? I'll keep working at it til I hear from you.

Thanks!!

ok, well I got the driver to install, by using:

sudo dpkg -i --force-all firmware-iwlwifi_0.36_all.deb

which does install, and when I use:

iwconfig, I now get a wlan interface of wlan1:

wlan1 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode: <anaged Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dbm
Retry long limit: 7 RTS the: off Fragment the: off
Encryption key: off
Power Management: off

so some progress is being made, but I am unable to configure the interface.

Any help to get this up and running would be much appreciated.

Thanks!!

Well, need some assistance, kind of spinning my wheels. not sure where to go or what to do from here.

I installed my other drivers for my ALFA AWUS036NEH usb card, but have the same results, so i am guessing it is not the driver that is the entire problem, unless I made the same mistake on both.

So as of now, I have two wireless cards installed, and I can see their interfaces. I can tell them in the command-line to have a ESSID, which will show up in iwconfig/ifconfig, but still wont connect to either.

If I stop the DBus and start again, I stop getting the dbus error, but I have to do this whenever I reboot, which should be happening either. Is my install bad?? I am duel booting system with windows 7/ Backtrack 5r3 is this part of the issue??

Thanks for you help so far, Hope there is more... :8)

Thanks!!

ok, well after messing with this all day, I have concluded that there are too many errors popping up, so I re-installed BT5R3 without dual booting, and everything is up and running within 5 minutes after the install. guess a crapping install can cause all sorts of issues. plus, I haven't had much luck with dual booting windows.

Thanks for your assistance.

Thanks!!

Well, I have dual booting and it works fine..

But it's good you worked out your issue...