Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG [Resolved]

[Frijolie]

Hey all,

I'm new to this forum and didn't even know a Utah LUG existed! Well, that's good news for all of us.

I'm a Linux newbie (today is my Linux debut) and am experiencing my first roadblock.

I'm having difficulty getting my Ubuntu (Eggy) box to connect to the 'net with my Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG wifi card. I've googled and read numerous HOW-TOs without any success. There's so much information out there that it's hard to tell which is the right one to go with.

I don't know where to start or what information you'll need to help me fix this speedbump, so please be patient.

Where do we start?

Thanks in advance for all of your help.

Frijolie
Holladay, UT

[Frijolie]

with some more googling, I found some frequently requested outputs. Here they are and hope they help...

brian@brian-laptop:~$ sudo iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      unassociated  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Channel=0  Access Point: 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:0   Missed beacon:0

sit0      no wireless extensions.

and

brian@brian-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
Password:
  *-network:0             
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 1
       bus info: pci@02:01.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:0f:b0:5a:c2:1f
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegociation
       configuration: autonegociation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.27 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.105 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: ioport:4000-40ff iomemory:d0201800-d02018ff irq:217
  *-network:1
       description: Wireless interface
       product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@02:02.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 05
       serial: 00:0e:35:c9:05:db
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.1.2kmprq firmware=ABG:9.0.2.6 (Mar 22 2005) link=no multicast=yes wireless=unassociated
       resources: iomemory:d0200000-d0200fff irq:225

Hope this has helped..

[drr422]

Well, first of all welcome to the Ubuntu community!

Are you trying to connect to a WEP secured router or a WPA secured router? If you are trying to connect to a WEP secured router, then you should go to System->Administration->Networking, where you should see your 'wireless connection.' It should be there, since your eth1 connection is showing wireless stuff. There you can click properties and enter your router info ( SSID, and ASCII passphrase ( or Hex 64 or 128 key ) and it should configure it for you. A program i like to use is wifi-radar, it makes automatic switching between wireless profiles a very easy task. You should give it a try after you get everything working.
I'm not totally sure how to connect to WPA with edgy, but i just got it working tonight on dapper, so you might need to look around a little.

I hope this helps, and let me know if i can help out anymore.

[Frijolie]

thanks for trying to help...

I'm using WPA+PSK 128bit security. I installed gtkwifi-1.09 and when I mouse over the icon in the 'notification area' it says "X amount of networks" (where X is the amount of wireless networks available) but when I click on the icon it doesn't show any wireless networks in the window.

I've typed in my SSID and passkey manually in System --> Administration --> Networking and it doesn't connect. Hmmmm..I don't know where to go from here..

[peanut butter]

I dont live in Utah, but i use wifi-radar for my wifi. I dont know if it supports WPA-PSK though.

[llamashoes]

Edgy does not support WPA out of the box, however it is an easy fix. Here is the link that I used to get it working. I have the same card in my laptop.
http://www.debianadmin.com/enable-wp...ntu-linux.html

Let us know how it goes.

[Frijolie]

thanks llamashoes! that worked! I swear I tried that same tutorial before and it didn't do anything for me..however, now that I remember when I commented out the previous lines in /etc/network/interfaces I used double slashes ('//') instead of pound signs ('#'). I guess that's what made the difference this time. Thanks for everyone's help on this one..Hurray!

[drr422]

I'm glad that it worked out for you, when I get around to solving a vmware issue I'm having with Edgy, then ill upgrade and probably use that nice tutorial.

[llamashoes]

I'm glad it worked!

[rubykj]

Originally Posted by llamashoes Edgy does not support WPA out of the box, however it is an easy fix. Here is the link that I used to get it working. I have the same card in my laptop. http://www.debianadmin.com/enable-wp...ntu-linux.html Let us know how it goes.

I tried this method in the link. I also have the same card and problem. However when I tried to install network-manager-gnome i got an error: Dependency is not satisfiable : libnm-util0
DO you know anything about this?
Thanks