Hi...
IPW2200 appears to be somewhat of a bugaboo with MANDRIVA based distros, for say 12/18 months I have been going thru these wifi pushups!! Please tell me [and 100/1000's others] how to fix this problem - once and for all
Every Mandriva-based distro I have used has had wifi probs ... Every notebook/laptop/smartfone/etc has wifi or can accept suitable card.
Its like Color - a must have.

Please publish this loud & clear & big - a known working solution to this problem - for all to see !!

I just loaded PCLOS 2007 on another Vaio notebook - sans wifi - again - this time right out of the box !!
Occasionally there was a glimmer, but on reboot it inevitably goes away .. Try ICS for a real exercise in futility ...
Your small distro is good thing - Opera is not - nobody in their right mind is going to wait for 3/4 Gig to download only to go thru md5 hell, then to find that the DVD is junk or CD #3 is trash, or that NONE of it works as advertised..... 300/400M is great !!
Many places in the US & Asia there are NO ethernet hubs anymore - so its wifi or toast.
Thanks for listening ... BR>Pete

PS All this works AOK under [sorry guys] MSW2K/XP -- fans, wifi, eth0, volume, brightness, smart-buttons, etc, et al
Please can the rhetoric guys, you demean all the good work that Tex/Anna/Chris/Ripper/Sundry are doing.
It is always painful to listen to the MS lobby pan everything Linux.
Clearly we need good solutions -
My fan on a big Vaio Notebook always runs at say 50/60% ??? Not hot, just runs a lot harder than under MS??

Ok, Pete, here we go.

Let's start with the basics.

* Can you tell me the exact notebook model you use?
* Could you tell me what kind of wifi setup you use -- static DNS, DHCP, do you use WEP or WPA?

* Which version of MCNLive: Toronto, I guess? The connection does not work at all? Or is not stable?

* Can you provide/ post here the output of the following command, in a terminal:



and (after 'su' the password is: root)



PS: may I ask other MDV users to help here too -- I am not an expert in wifi and networking. It always just worked for me.

Hey Anna ... tried to get thru but kept getting 'parse errors' so I am a little late ...
Sony Vaio A290 19' Picturebook UltraBrite Widescreen 2x120G HDD 2G RAM Intel Centrino
IPW2200 Sony DVD ATI 9600?? yadda/yadda/yadda runs XP SP2 + Toronto - fresh install - minutes old
Observations: - fan ran real quiet on 1/2nd boot - did 37 package download - now fan running hard again - same as PCLOS 2007, using yr Kernel,
not either of the other 2 ... Fixed the video + Synaptics mouse everything running great - have not invoked wifi yet - ethernet only - invoked Metisse @ 1200x800 & screen now unusable - garbage - but I can fix that later ... wanted to check in with you .. need to run my own saltmines too ..
Will fix graphics early am & hit wifi same/same .. will revert ASAP
Tnx ... BR>Pete
PS Anyone have a real ISO Boot code that actually works?? I just bought another new Sony burner for over $1,000 bucks 'cause I fried my internal
Vaio job & its 3/6 weeks ex factory, Tokyo - obviously cannot boot ex CD/DVD ... but this ISO CD burn issue is a real PIA.
PS ... Of course anyone can contribute - thats what we do !! Solve problems ... later ...

Pete, we had a short downtime on the forum.

Can you provide the informations I asked in this topic?

Hi Anna ........ as requested ... viz:

[guest@localhost ~]$ lspcidrake -v
intel-agp : Intel Corporation|82855PM Processor to I/O Controller [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:8086 device:3340 subv:104d subd:8187)
unknown : Intel Corporation|82855PM Processor to AGP Controller [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:3341)
uhci-hcd : Intel Corporation|82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:24c2 subv:104d subd:8188)
uhci-hcd : Intel Corporation|82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:24c4 subv:104d subd:8188)
uhci-hcd : Intel Corporation|82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:24c7 subv:104d subd:8188)
ehci-hcd : Intel Corporation|82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:24cd subv:104d subd:8188)
hw_random : Intel Corporation|82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:2448)
i8xx_tco : Intel Corporation|82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge [BRIDGE_ISA] (vendor:8086 device:24cc)
piix : Intel Corporation|82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller [STORAGE_IDE] (vendor:8086 device:24ca subv:104d subd:8188)
i2c-i801 : Intel Corporation|82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller [SERIAL_SMBUS] (vendor:8086 device:24c3 subv:104d subd:8188)
snd-intel8x0 : Intel Corporation|82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:8086 device:24c5 subv:104d subd:818b)
snd-intel8x0m : Intel Corporation|82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller [COMMUNICATION_MODEM] (vendor:8086 device:24c6 subv:104d subd:818c)
Card:ATI Radeon 9500 - X850: ATI Technologies Inc|RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1002 device:4e50 subv:104d subd:818a)
yenta_socket : Texas Instruments|PCI7420 CardBus Controller [BRIDGE_CARDBUS] (vendor:104c device:ac8e subv:d000 subd:0000)
ohci1394 : Texas Instruments|PCI7x20 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller [SERIAL_FIREWIRE] (vendor:104c device:802e subv:104d subd:818f)
tifm_7xx1 : Texas Instruments|PCI7420/7620 Combo CardBus, 1394a-2000 OHCI and SD/MS-Pro Controller [STORAGE_OTHER] (vendor:104c device:ac8f subv:104d subd:8190)
ipw2200 : Intel Corporation|PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:4220 subv:8086 subd:2751)
e1000 : Intel Corporation|82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:8086 device:1076 subv:104d subd:818e)
ohci-hcd : NEC Corporation|USB [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:1033 device:0035 subv:104d subd:819a)
ohci-hcd : NEC Corporation|USB [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:1033 device:0035 subv:104d subd:819a)
ehci-hcd : NEC Corporation|USB 2.0 [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:1033 device:00e0 subv:104d subd:819a)
hub : Linux 2.6.17-13mdv ohci_hcd|OHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused] (vendor:0000 device:0000)
hub : Linux 2.6.17-13mdv ohci_hcd|OHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused] (vendor:0000 device:0000)
hub : Linux 2.6.17-13mdv ehci_hcd|EHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused] (vendor:0000 device:0000)
hub : Linux 2.6.17-13mdv ehci_hcd|EHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused] (vendor:0000 device:0000)
hub : Linux 2.6.17-13mdv uhci_hcd|UHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused] (vendor:0000 device:0000)
hub : Linux 2.6.17-13mdv uhci_hcd|UHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused] (vendor:0000 device:0000)
hub : Linux 2.6.17-13mdv uhci_hcd|UHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused] (vendor:0000 device:0000)
[guest@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost guest]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

eth2 unassociated ESSID:"icausainc" Nickname:"localhost"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Channel=0 Cell: 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:18 Missed beacon:0

[root@localhost guest]#


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This is a fresh re-load @ 0500 this am ...strangely it picked up my ad-hoc parameters even though I had no wireless running.. PERIOD ... go figure ... must have been a rave-from-the-grave or a windows spook... this was discovered using your wireless config under MCNL menu ... NOT via MCC [root] ...
Have NOT done any updates ..ie ... no 37 package job like last nite ... fan was low ... now say 60% all the time ...
Simply running along in low ... get used to the system before we tweak it ... Later ...

Your wireless adapter is correctly detected. The driver is loaded.

But it is not 'connected' to a wireless access point/router/modem whatever.

The menu entry you can find under MCNLive is the same as the MCC.

You say, that your wifi connection works with Windows. Please post here all settings you have in Windows.

Also, please let us know if you are doing any wireless encryption (WEP, WPA, WPA2) and what kind of wireless access point/router you are attempting to connect to.

sorry to sound like a broken record, and i KNOW some folks hate the pay feature, BUT I would strongly suggest you check out:

http://www.linuxant.com/company/

download the trial if it works, part with the $ for it.

The best part (for me) is that its tied to your MAC address.

I use 5 different OS's on my laptop and ALL of them get to benefit from their driver.

Like you I tried MANY different LAN cards and MANY different methods for installing drivers under ndiswrapper, none of them worked - to my satisfaction.

I DO admit that I have one of them that did load properly BUT my signal is stringer and faster using the linuxant path.

just MY 2 cts

J

And because of that every manufacturer believes that they can tweak their system. They will change the drivers and include them in thier Windows which comes with the machine, and make it work. But it makes the linux driver writers lives hell.



Uh, if there is a glimmer of hope, you need to know what you did to get that glimmer. The computer cannot remember unless the info is put into the appropriate file. In your case probably /etc/modprobe.conf

IF the command
iwlist s
gives you output from some wireless access point, then your driver is working. It is not a wireless problem ( probably) It is a configuration problem

Does the command
ifconfig
list eth1 as a device?
Does iwconfig list eth1?

If they do then as root run
ifup eth1
Does it say it is asking for and address via dhcp?

Please don't blindly and stupidly spam linuxant. The ipw2x00 drivers are very solid, stable and mature, there's no need to waste money on linuxant. They're one of the best wireless drivers we've got.

As we saw above, this isnt a driver issue. The driver is loaded and working fine, he just needs to connect to the wireless network -- linuxant won't fix that.

James