I have a very old laptop I was thinking of installing Ubuntu 10.10 on. The install went smoothly. Everything seems to be working well except the wireless connection. When I click on the wireless icon on the top right, it shows me a list of networks available. I have tried joining open networks, WEP, WPA and WPA2 networks - all of which fail. I know the password is working because I tested it on my macbook sitting alongside the old laptop.
The wireless adapter in question is supposed to work "out of the box" with Ubuntu, still I'm having problems.
Here are the details of the old laptop:
1.1) Brand:
Neo (a phillippine-based company)
1.2) Model number:
SZS223 (discontinued)
2 ) Wireless Brand, Model and Wireless Chipset:
Intel corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] (rev 05)
3 ) check interface:
Code:
$iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz 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
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:66 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
4 ) Check for modules:
(pasting selected entries)
Code:
$lsmod
libipw 39808 1 ipw2200
cfg80211 144470 2 ipw2200,libipw
lib80211 5058 3 lib80211_crypt_wep,ipw2200,libipw
5 ) Kernel boot messages
Code:
$ dmesg | grep "ipw"
[ 7.543983] libipw: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[ 7.543987] libipw: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
[ 8.588907] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[ 8.588910] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 8.589044] ipw2200 0000:01:07.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
[ 8.589124] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[ 9.878635] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZR (14 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
6 ) Network configuration
Code:
$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network:0
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 7
bus info: pci@0000:01:07.0
logical name: eth1
version: 05
serial: 00:12:f0:0e:56:e7
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.2.2kmprq firmware=ABG:9.0.5.27 (Dec 12 2007) latency=64 link=no maxlatency=24 mingnt=3 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
resources: irq:5 memory:ffbff000-ffbfffff
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: c
bus info: pci@0000:01:0c.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:03:0d:24:2c:f7
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=half latency=64 link=no maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
resources: irq:5 ioport:c800(size=256) memory:ffbfd400-ffbfd4ff
Code:
$ iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:11:6B:2A:32:4E
ESSID:"india"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Quality=92/100 Signal level=-36 dBm
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Extra: Last beacon: 11124ms ago
8 ) Ubuntu Version:
10.10
9 ) Kernel/architecture (including 32 vs. 64 bit):
Code:
$ uname -mr
2.6.35-22-generic i686
10 ) Restarting the network:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restartGives no error messages whatsoever.
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