Yet another Dell Latitude D600 wifi problem thread

[meowcarrot]

I just picked up a laptop to give to my brother and can't get the wifi working. It's a Dell Latitude D600 running Hardy Heron. The wifi is on, and it can see my router, but when I try to connect it doesn't work. I've added Ndiswrapper and updated the drivers... I'm at a loss.

jonathan@helo:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for jonathan:
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:0f:1f:a0:b5:1d
size: 1GB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.86 duplex=full firmware=5705-v3.16 ip=192.168.2.2 latency=32 link=yes mingnt=64 module=tg3 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1GB/s
*-network:1
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:02:03.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 04
serial: 00:0c:f1:1e:ce:c3
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+w70n51 driverversion=1.52+Intel,10/11/2003,1.2.1.3 latency=32 link=no maxlatency=34 mingnt=2 module=ndiswrapper multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID: Off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
RTS thr=1600 B Fragment thr=2344 B
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:0 Missed beacon:0


ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:1f:a0:b5:1d
inet addr:192.168.2.2 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:1fff:fea0:b51d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:97914 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:73959 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:145787475 (139.0 MB) TX bytes:5843282 (5.5 MB)
Interrupt:11

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:1786 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1786 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:89300 (87.2 KB) TX bytes:89300 (87.2 K

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:f1:1e:ce:c3
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:722 (722.0 B) TX bytes:9128 (8.9 KB)
Interrupt:5 Memory:fafef000-faff0000
Any ideas?

[urugTON]

I have a Dell Latitude D610 which is running wireless fine on Jaunty. It uses a PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] from Intel and not what you have. I too got an older laptop, but mine has only run 9.04 - Jaunty.

I will note that I have another Dell laptop, a Vostro 1510. I originally ran it with Hardy - 8.04. I had to back port drivers and switch to Wicd in order to get wireless running on 8.04. The Vostro has run wireless 8.10 & 9.04 off the LiveCD. I'd suggest burning a 9.04 LiveCD and trying that.

My attempts at using 8.04 with Ndiswrapper were very frustrating and completely fruitless on the Vostro. Fortunately I've not had any issues with either laptop's wireless on 9.04.

Good luck.

[mikewhatever]

Intel's wireless cards don't need ndiswrapper because they mostly work out of the box, regardless, there is an ip address under the wireless interface, which means that you are connected to the router.

[lswb]

Your ifconfig post shows that you are connected to a network through your wired ethernet interface eth0. Network Manager will not connect to wireless when a wired network is available. Try disconnecting the ethernet cable and see what happens.

[meowcarrot]

ifconfig showed a wired connection because I had run it while writing the post, which required an internet connection. :) The answer in the end was upgrading to Intrepid.

As I mentioned in OP, the laptop could see my router as a wireless network to join without issue, but it wasn't connecting. Weird thing is, now my Inspiron 640m running Jaunty is doing the same thing >.> I wonder if my router is being cranky... (linksys WRT54GL). Anyway, this is as resolved as it's going to get as I no longer have access to the laptop.