what happened to my wireless?

[benndamann33]

Hi all,
so last week sometime there were some updates to install and yes I know this is embarassing but didn't even read what they were(they appeared to be pretty small, insignifcant updates) so I just let debian automatically update. Next time I start up my computer, eth1(wireless) no longer works, in fact, gives the error that device is not found. Seems like the driver is no longer working - but no idea why this would happen. Any idea on how to fix this - also... i didn't manually install the driver so not really sure what to do at this point. Thanks for any help you may provide
Ben

[lethal0r]

is there is a firmware update for your wireless router?

if not then can't you just re-install the old drivers?

[valemon]

It sounds like you had a kernel update and the module for your wireless isn't loaded anymore. Post the output of "lspci", run as root. Probably, you just need to install the drivers from your installation cd.

[benndamann33]

the output is as follows:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev  03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethe rnet PCI Express (rev 01)

[valemon]

Is your wireless card pci? lspci command does not seem to detect your wireless, just your ethernet card.

[benndamann33]

Intel PRO/Wireless 2915abg is my wireless card. Is it possible it's physically disconnected?

[valemon]

I don't think it can be disconnected. It is a laptop right? Are you sure the wireless switch is on? Post the output of "lsmod".

[benndamann33]

yeah, it's a laptop

ipv6                  229344  8
cpufreq_ondemand        7404  1
cpufreq_userspace       5696  0
cpufreq_powersave       2688  0
speedstep_centrino      9440  1
i915                   18496  2
drm                    62260  3 i915
freq_table              5440  1 speedstep_centrino
rfcomm                 36120  0
l2cap                  23296  5 rfcomm
bluetooth              47556  4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev                   9444  0
lp                     11780  0
button                  7440  0
ac                      5956  0
battery                10404  0
dm_snapshot            16320  0
dm_mirror              19920  0
dm_mod                 51000  2 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror
loop                   15816  0
joydev                  9856  0
tsdev                   8288  0
pcmcia                 34940  0
firmware_class         10368  1 pcmcia
parport_pc             33060  1
snd_intel8x0           31164  4
rtc                    13140  0
snd_intel8x0m          16748  0
snd_ac97_codec         83872  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m
snd_ac97_bus            3168  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss            39136  1
snd_mixer_oss          15968  1 snd_pcm_oss
parport                34024  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
psmouse                35784  0
serio_raw               7428  0
yenta_socket           25324  1
rsrc_nonstatic         12960  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            37652  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
pcspkr                  3840  0
snd_pcm                69476  4 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              21764  1 snd_pcm
snd                    47780  13 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              10016  2 snd
intel_agp              22940  1
agpgart                30792  3 drm,intel_agp
snd_page_alloc         10472  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_pcm
sg                     32060  0
sr_mod                 16644  0
cdrom                  33312  1 sr_mod
evdev                   9856  2
ext3                  120168  2
jbd                    53224  1 ext3
mbcache                 9124  1 ext3
sd_mod                 19808  4
ahci                   18532  0
ata_piix               14376  3
libata                 90356  2 ahci,ata_piix
scsi_mod              124936  5 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,ahci,libata
generic                 5636  0 [permanent]
ide_core              111464  1 generic
ehci_hcd               29160  0
tg3                    95972  0
uhci_hcd               22028  0
usbcore               113668  3 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
thermal                14376  0
processor              29896  2 speedstep_centrino,thermal
fan                     5572  0

[valemon]

What you should probably do is download the firmware from here and extract it in /lib/firmware/. Tell me if this works

[benndamann33]

yeah I did it already, and if I just do

dmesg | grep ipw

I get nothing.

But if i do

bdg4@res-152-3-68-24:~/BME153/lab$ sudo modprobe ipw2200 
bdg4@res-152-3-68-24:~/BME153/lab$ dmesg | grep ipw
usbcore: registered new driver ipwtty
drivers/usb/serial/ipw.c: IPWireless tty driver v0.3
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2kmq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation

which appears as though everything is peachy...

but

bdg4@res-152-3-68-24:~/BME153/lab$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
Reconfiguring network interfaces...Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up eth1.
done.