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Still can't get wifi. Did the modprobe for ipw2200 and then downloaded the firmware-ipw2x00 but couldn't get it to install after copied it to desktop.
Got that 'has no installation candidate' and for many different install attempts [sudo apt-get update (went fine); followed by 'sudo apt-get install firmware-ipw2x00 and then many path provisions and name extensions (_0.43_all.deb) and other variations] only got that 'unable to locate package' or 'not found'.
Hi...
I'm assuming you downloaded this package, is that correct? Why wouldn't that .deb package install? Did you try double clicking on it? Can you provide us with the exact error messages?
OK, finally got installed the firmware-ipw2x00, BUT still [even after rebooting] have no internet [still getting message of "server not found"].
Noticed on scroll-in on reboot was a message of 'failed to load firmware' and when repeated modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200
got: [2560.548165] ipw2200 0000:02:01:0: firmware: failed to load ipw2200-bss.fw (-2)
[2560.557788] ipw2200: unable to load firmware: -12
my ifconfig reads: eth0 Link encap: Ethernet Hwaddr 00:40:45:26:8e:08
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU: 1500 Metric: 1
RX and TX packets: 0 all zero
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX and TX bytes:0
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: 65536 Metric: 1
RX and TX packets both: 4892
RX and TX bytes both: 384989 (375.9 KiB)
No idea what to try next.
OK, finally got installed the firmware-ipw2x00, BUT still [even after rebooting] have no internet [still getting message of "server not found"].
Hi...
Thank you for the results. As you mentioned, although you may have installed the firmware, Debian, at the very least, cannot see it. How exactly did you install the firmware and can you see the file(s) in the "lib/firmware" directory?
If not, you can try installing it again using an ethernet connection. Please go here again, under "Installation on Established Systems," and install the firmware via the terminal, using the commands mentioned there.
Might have missed it, but what kernel are you running? I ask because the stock Jessie kernel requires a completely different version of firmware for that card than the backports kernel does.
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