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SirCrocus 08-14-2005 07:44 PM

Acer Aspire 1690 and wireless ipw2200
 
I have an Acer Aspire 1690 which has a ipw2200.
I have to use acpi=off or else linux doesn't load. When when it does it doesn't detect the card, so i use the load=ipw2200 at boot up and it detects the card on eth1, when i iwconfig it detects it but no radio off , so i press the wireless button on the front and it seems to be ok after that, doesn't say radio off anymore, and i can ping the loopback 127.0.0.1. but when i search for any wireless signals using it just sits there and does nothing. i am using whax distro and can see there are a few people with the same problem, but no solutions, can somebody help me...?

thanks guys...! :P

gazzamop 08-15-2005 04:49 AM

I'm no expert, but I think more information is needed to solve the problem. Could you post the output of
Code:

iwconfig
please?

SirCrocus 08-15-2005 04:56 PM

ok when slax is loading up it seems to pick up the wireless card becasue it loads
dhcpcd MAC address - and comes up with a mac address
this is the result of my iwconfig

eth1
unassociated ESSID: off/any
Mode: Managed Channel: 0 Access Point : 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00
Bit Rate=okb/s Tx=Power=20dBm
RTS thr: off Fragment thr: off
Encryption key: off
Power Management: off
Link quality: 0 Siungal 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

does this mean it is all working....?

i type: airodump eth1 start 0

i run airodump and it just sits there looking for wireless networks but doesn't come up with anything

is there a software switch aswell as the button of the front of the laptop i need to use to get it going...?

what other info do i need to give you guys..?



gazzamop 08-15-2005 05:55 PM

Have you tried configuring your card 'manually' using iwconfig? The man pages on iwconfig explain how you can configure a connection, if you know the SSID and WEP key etc.

No, in theory there isn't a software switch in addition to the hardware switch - at least not officially! Software can still cause things to fail however.

Try using iwconfig to set things up manually if you can.

SirCrocus 08-15-2005 06:28 PM

ok i will try and configure it manually and then test it, at least i will know whether it works or not that way....
i will post the results later today when i get a chance

SirCrocus 08-15-2005 06:32 PM

what do i need to do to make sure that the acerhk module is working

gazzamop 08-16-2005 04:44 AM

I'm not 100% sure of this, but when my wireless module wasn't working iwconfig wouldn't display any information for my wireless card, so I assume that it is working ok.

Omino 08-16-2005 06:33 AM

Do you have the firmware for the ipw2200? They may not be with the drivers you have and need to be placed in a /usr/lib/firmware...
Go to http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php to get it.

Omino 08-16-2005 06:43 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by SirCrocus
what do i need to do to make sure that the acerhk module is working
I have the same hardware on Fedora Core 4 and I haven't used this 'acerchk' module at all. I did add a few command to /etc/init.d/network to make sure the card was activated on boot.

# enable wireless card and led indicator
/bin/echo "Enabling wireless NIC and wireless LED"
/bin/echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:06\:03.0/rf_kill
/bin/echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:06\:03.0/led

Omino 08-16-2005 06:48 AM

this is the contents of my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ESSID=
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Wireless
MODE=Auto
NETMASK=255
DHCP_HOSTNAME=<your hostname>
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
HWADDR=<your mac address for the wireless>
USERCTL=no
GATEWAY=
RATE=Auto
CHANNEL=6
PEERDNS=yes

I use wpa_supplicant to manage authentication. Once installed this works well.

Try iwlist scan to see if your card can at least detect other networks.

SirCrocus 08-16-2005 07:35 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Omino
Do you have the firmware for the ipw2200? They may not be with the drivers you have and need to be placed in a /usr/lib/firmware...
Go to http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php to get it.


how do i know which firmware i need to use...?
i just downloaded the ipw2200 module from www.iwhax.net and added it in using MySlax Creator

Omino 08-16-2005 07:50 AM

Use this one http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=5 , it's the latest and also the one that I used

ginger.fish0 02-23-2006 06:58 AM

what you have postedthere says that you do not even have the driver running...ok first off you need to make sure that you use the diver that is in the optional folder on the cd the easiest way that i have found is if you accually copy all of the files from the cd to your hard drive and then put the driver into the modules folder and then burn another copy and boot to the new copy so that it will auto install the driver then after that it should connect properly


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