Confused about Networking (newbie question)

[baris]

Hi,

My problem is, I cannot configure my wireless.

I've just installed Debian RC1 to my Toshiba M50. I've a ipw220 wireless controller which the kernel supports (hence I don't need ndiswrapper, do I?)

> When I say "lsmod" I got:

06:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200 BG Network Connection (rev 05)

>So I write in my /etc/network/interfaces:

auto eth1
ifaces eth1 inet dhcp

> When I say "iwconfig" I got : (note: wpasupplicants is installed)

eth1: no wireless extensions.

I think I have to make some kind of aliasing so that eth1 is referencing my wireless controller. But how?

I am a newbie and I am lost in this configuration business. Any kind of help will be very helpful.

Thanks a lot.

[Vergil83]

what does

ifconfig

show?

[baris]

It says:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B0:A2:E3:F0
inet addr:192.168.1.5 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b0ff:fea2:e3f0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2674933 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2717613 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:973830098 (928.7 MiB) TX bytes:927531282 (884.5 MiB)
Interrupt:169

eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-02-3F-5A-75-40-DE-D4-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:2 dropped:2 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:33222 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:33222 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:66734376 (63.6 MiB) TX bytes:66734376 (63.6 MiB)

Thanks.

[Vergil83]

try running

modprobe ipw220

then do iwconfig again

[baris]

I did modprobe ipw2200 & iwconfig, the result is:

lo no wireless extensions

eth0 no wireless extensions

eth1 no wireless extensions

sit no wireless extensions

[iwanabeguru]

hi
please post the output of

dmesg | grep eth

and

lsmod

commands

[antidrugue]

The drivers for ipw2200 are included in the kernel, but you still need to install the firmware.

There are many threads regarding this on the forum.

Normally, simply extracting the firmware in /lib/firmware/ should do the trick. Then you can install network-manager for easier use of wireless :
http://wizah.editthis.info/wiki/Debi...ess_Networking

[baris]

when I execute dmseg | eth the output is:

sky2 eth0: addr 00:0f:b0:a2:e3:f0
eth1394: eth1: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
sky2 eth0: enabling interface
sky2 eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control none
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

And when I execute lsmod, the related part of the output is:

Module Size Used by

ipv6 222304 8
ipw2200 93180 0
sg 30972 0
ieee80211 29256 1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt 5856 1 ieee80211
i2c_i801 8236 0
firmware_class 9696 2 pcmcia,ipw2200
eth1394 18052 0
evdev 9088 2
yenta_socket 23884 1
rsrc_nonstatic 11968 1 yenta_socket
ieee1394 86584 3 sbp2,eth1394,ohci1394

By the way, I downloaded the firmware and installed as it is described in the link. But now I can't run "knetworkmanager" . Nothing happens.

It has been a week since I got this problem. I will also check previous posts in the forum.

Thanks.

[antidrugue]

Try

modprobe -r ipw2200
modprobe ipw2200

Then just after :

dmesg | tail

what does it says ?

[baris]

after installing the firmware,

I executed

"modprobe -r ipw2200"
"modprobe ipw2200"
"dmesg | tail"

The output is:

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.1.1
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:02.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 50
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
eth2: NETDEV_TX_BUSY returned; driver should report queue full via ieee_device->is_queue_full.
sky2 eth0: Link is down.
sky2 eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control none
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

additionally, output of "iwconfig eth2" is:

eth2 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"kiraz"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:14:7C:B5:F2:B0
Bit Rate=54 Mb/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=94/100 Signal level=-22 dBm Noise level=-82 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:1

Here I see that It can detect my wireless home network. But still I can not use it somehow.