no wireless in Debian on laptop intel 2915ABG

[Paul Cartwright]

I booted a Debian 6 LiveCD to try out KDE4, on my older Dell laptop.
This laptop has an intel 2915ABG wireless setup. Right now I have
PeppermintOS install & wireless works just fine. with Debian, after I
booted, I looked at :

$ dmesg | less +/Network



and found this:

ipw2200 0000:02:03.0:firmware: requesting ipw2200-bss.fw failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: unable to load firmware: -2
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5


so, now we know it FAILS, but WHY...

I googled, but didn't see any resolution ( except for 1 Mandriva..)
I installed the firmware-ipw2x00 from the non-free source & also
downloaded from ipw2200.sourceforge.net nothing worked.
--
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:34:25 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:

(...)

Post by Paul Cartwright
ipw2200 0000:02:03.0:firmware: requesting ipw2200-bss.fw failed: Reason
-2 ipw2200: unable to load firmware: -2
ipw2200: failed to register network device ipw2200: probe of
0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5
so, now we know it FAILS, but WHY...
I googled, but didn't see any resolution ( except for 1 Mandriva..) I
installed the firmware-ipw2x00 from the non-free source & also
downloaded from ipw2200.sourceforge.net nothing worked.

Did you follow these steps?

http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200#InstallationonEstablishedSystems

(after the installation of firmware blob, reload the module)

Greetings,

[Paul Cartwright]

Post by Camaleón

Post by Paul Cartwright
I googled, but didn't see any resolution ( except for 1 Mandriva..) I

Post by Paul Cartwright
installed the firmware-ipw2x00 from the non-free source & also
downloaded from ipw2200.sourceforge.net nothing worked.

Did you follow these steps?
http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200#InstallationonEstablishedSystems
(after the installation of firmware blob, reload the module)
Greetings,

I did not. I didn't do the wireless-tools app.. or the modprobe -r;modprobe
I think I did that part backwards ( stumbling around..)

that worked!!! it must be this part that I didn't do:
modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200

now I can install Debian on my laptop!
--
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800

[Paul Cartwright]

Post by Camaleón
http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200#InstallationonEstablishedSystems
(after the installation of firmware blob, reload the module)

I did not. I didn't do the wireless-tools app.. or the modprobe -r;modprobe
I think I did that part backwards ( stumbling around..)

that worked!!! it must be this part that I didn't do:

modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200