hi, getting wireless to work was a pain,
it identified the Intel 2200bg card just fine but yast was no help in setting up wireless. Finally after much trying, and some googling i discovered that there was a message in /var/log/messages which read
Quote:Kill Switch must be turned off for wireless networking to workwhich is great, at least now i can see why i wasted hours trying to get wireless to work. so some more googling explains the following:-
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Code:
cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:03\:03.0/rf_kill
will return a value, explained below...
so on a Latitude D610, if you cycle through FN+F2 the value reported by the code above will give a number corresponding to below. You need a '0' (zero) to get wireless working.
0 = RF kill not enabled (radio on)
1 = SW based RF kill active (radio off)
2 = HW based RF kill active (radio off)
3 = Both HW and SW RF kill active (radio off)
to quickly get this info i made a simple bash script which tells me what the state is when run,
simply fire up vi and paste this in
Code:
#!/bin/sh
cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:03\:03.0/rf_kill
then chmod +x wireless_state
(or whatever you called the file).
sh wireless_state will then return a value. once you get it working iwconfig will hopefully look like this
Quote:eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"wireless" Nickname:"linux" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:05:5D:99:CF:4D
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:1111-2233-44 Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=70/100 Signal level=-58 dBm Noise level=-85 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
cheers
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