the good old famous wireless problem.. plz any1 (intel pro ipw2200)

[Clawsman]

helo to all here!

First i would like to say i have done tonns of research before i post or ask.
But sadly i am out of ammo and need a lifting hand.

Its the popular intel pro ipw2200 wireless problem.

Indeed i did my research i downloaded the 3.1 firmware and copy it into /lib/firmware/.. and there it was.. my wireless worked!
After some tweeking i wanted to do an apt-get update... after that.. my wireless did not show up in Wicd network manager.

I have try'd everything... even formated (gparted) reinstalled BT5 4 times and repeated my 3.2 firmware copy to make it work again.... guess what.. nothing works again.

this is what i am getting...

root@bt:~# dmesg | grep ipw
[   15.002828] libipw: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[   15.002836] libipw: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
[   15.284687] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[   15.284696] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[   15.284863] ipw2200 0000:02:03.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[   15.284910] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[   16.028746] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZD (13 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)

firmware looks in place

root@bt:~# ls -al /lib/firmware | grep ipw
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  191154 2009-03-11 21:17 ipw2200-bss.fw
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  185428 2009-03-11 21:17 ipw2200-ibss.fw
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  187836 2009-03-11 21:17 ipw2200-sniffer.fw
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   12007 2009-03-11 21:17 LICENSE.ipw2200-fw

my eth1 shows up... when doing ifconfig

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:xx:xx:68:42  
          inet6 addr: fe80::213:ceff:fece:6842/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:10512 (10.5 KB)
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0x4000 Memory:dfbfd000-dfbfdfff

and iwconfig shows......

root@bt:~# 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
          Encryption key: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

Any help will be much appreciated!

[JAYNESS]

I had the same problem with mine:

Acer Travelmate C314XMi
IPW2200BG

From where you were, I opened Wicd, clicked Preferences and entered eth1 into the wireless interface field under General Settings/Network Interfaces. I rebooted (just to be safe) and everything worked.

Good luck.