Inspiron 6000 - can't enable wireless

[benhanby]

Sorry about the previous post if you click quote then it appears in the correct formatting.

[praseodym]

The module "dell_laptop" is buggy and was replaced by "dell_wmi":

sudo modprobe -rf dell_laptop
echo "options dell_wmi wireless=1" | sudo tee /ect/modprobe.d/dell_wmi.conf 
sudo modprobe dell_wmi

[benhanby]

Hi thanks for your help and patient but i am afraid that when i enter the second line i get the response as follows :

tee: /ect/modprobe.d/dell_wmi.conf: No such file or directory
options dell_wmi wireless=1

Any help would be appreciated greatly
Regards
Ben.

[danmanmj]

Ok litterally just installed Ubuntu today first time user. I've tried all of the code above but can't seem to get anything to work. I'm using an Inspiron 6000 and I have a PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] wireless card.
Would really appreciate some expert advice to get this old beast wireless!

Thanks

[benhanby]

I'm pretty new at this also but it you post some of the results of the commands you have tried that may help out someone who is better placed to help you
Regards
Ben.

[praseodym]

@benhanby: Sorry, typo:

sudo modprobe -rf dell_laptop
echo "options dell_wmi wireless=1" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/dell_wmi.conf 
sudo modprobe dell_wmi

@danmanmj:

Please show the outputs of:

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
lsusb
lsmod
iwconfig
rfkill list

[danmanmj]

Thanks for your help, here you go!

dan@ubuntu:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop [1028:0188]
Kernel driver in use: b44
--
03:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection [8086:4220] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dell Latitude D600 [8086:2722]
Kernel driver in use: ipw2200
dan@ubuntu:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 3538:0901 Power Quotient International Co., Ltd
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c526 Logitech, Inc. Nano Receiver
dan@ubuntu:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 12617 1
nls_cp437 12751 1
vfat 17308 1
fat 55605 1 vfat
rfcomm 38139 0
bnep 17830 2
parport_pc 32114 0
ppdev 12849 0
bluetooth 158438 10 rfcomm,bnep
lp 17455 0
parport 40930 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
snd_intel8x0 33455 2
snd_ac97_codec 106082 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 12642 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 80845 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
dell_laptop 13671 0
dcdbas 14098 1 dell_laptop
snd_rawmidi 25424 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 51567 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 28931 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14172 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
ipw2200 146207 0
pcmcia 39791 0
libipw 46701 1 ipw2200
psmouse 72846 0
snd 62064 11 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,sn d_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
cfg80211 178679 2 ipw2200,libipw
i915 414603 3
serio_raw 13027 0
yenta_socket 27465 0
pcmcia_rsrc 18367 1 yenta_socket
soundcore 14635 1 snd
lib80211 14040 2 ipw2200,libipw
pcmcia_core 21511 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,pcmcia_rsrc
snd_page_alloc 14108 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
joydev 17393 0
mac_hid 13077 0
drm_kms_helper 45466 1 i915
drm 197692 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 13199 1 i915
video 19068 1 i915
usbhid 41906 0
hid 77367 1 usbhid
firewire_ohci 40172 0
sdhci_pci 18324 0
firewire_core 56906 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 12627 1 firewire_core
b44 31364 0
ssb 50691 1 b44
sdhci 28241 1 sdhci_pci
usb_storage 39646 1
dan@ubuntu:~$ iwconfig
eth3 IEEE 802.11bg ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=off Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
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

lo no wireless extensions.

eth2 no wireless extensions.

[benhanby]

Hi, thanks for your help. When i enter the third command i get the response as follows:

:~$ sudo modprobe dell_wmi
FATAL: Error inserting dell_wmi (/lib/modules/3.2.0-29-generic/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

Sorry to keep bothering you , thanks for the help
Regards
Ben.