No network connections

[Bwalter]

Hi i have just installed BT5 on my dell D610 which uses a pro/wireless 2200bg but i just cant get a network connection at all. i have tried going into wicd manager but i cant see any network.

Really hope someone can help.

[hypervista]

From GUI Try:
Services -> Network -> Start Network
then
Internet -> Wicd Network Manager

[Bwalter]

Hi, yes i have tried that and it's no good. I can get a connection now through the ethernet but still no luck with the wireless.

Is there some driver pack that i need to download or something? Im quite new to linux so any help would be great.

Ta

[cgelici]

Check if interfaces are present:

ifconfig

Try "ifconfig wlan0 up" of "ifconfig eth0 up" if they don't show.

/etc/init.d/wicd start

Then start Wicd Network Manager.

If it still doesn't work, check that your hardware is compatible with Backtrack 5. (<<Actually, do this first )

[Bwalter]

when i type ifconfig i get eth0 showing and also lo shows up.

Where do i check to see if my laptop is compatable?

Ta

[M00kaw]

When you type in: ifconfig wlan0 up - does it say anything about SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132 ?
I had that problem, and i fixed it by typing:

$rfkill unblock all
$ifconfig wlan0 up

(you dont actually write the $ )

[Bwalter]

Yes i have tried this but with no luck.

How can i check if my laptop is usable with BT5?

[gunrunr]

nah thats an older chipset he has. Its the ipw2200 chipset from intel. I have the same problem on my old IBM, it come up at boot as missing the firmware. Theres a fix for it in this old bt4 thread
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...upgrading.html

come say hi to me if you are at Summercon in brooklyn June 10-12

[Bwalter]

Hi, thanks for your reply's, after reading up some more i think all i need is the latest firmware update but (and this is a joke) im unable to download it off any computer.

This is the link http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=8

there is a list of older firmware on there and none of them download.

Lol i dont expect you guys can help, just putting it out there, grrrrr

[gunrunr]

well if you follow my link it leads to a list of firmware, i downloaded the latest and unzipped it and pasted it into the /lib/firmware folder and rebooted, and now my IBM T42's ipw2200 works like the awesome. Here's a more direct like to the answer, four spoon points to me.

Intel&#174; PRO/Wireless 2200BG Driver Firmware (in my case the file was ipw2200-fw-3.1.gz)

Then, it has to be uncompressed:

tar xzvf ipw2200-fw-3.1.gz

ipw2200-fw-3.1
ipw2200-fw-3.1/ipw2200-bss.fw
ipw2200-fw-3.1/ipw2200-sniffer.fw
ipw2200-fw-3.1/LICENSE.ipw2200.fw
ipw2200-fw-3.1/ipw2200-ibss.fw

Last step is to copy all those files in directory ipw2200-fw-3.1 to /lib/firmware/

You can test and check it doing

rmmod ipw2200
modprobe ipw2200
iwconfig