Installing wireless driver, Intel pro/wireless 2100
 

I am an absolute noob to linux and have done about 4 hours of research on making my wireless work. This is where I'm at.
- I have my ethernet port finally working for internet
- I have an Intel pro/wireless 2100
- I have went through the steps for the install but its not recognized
- I ran a command to determine the status of my radio
- This came with a value of 0 meaning the card is switched off
- I have no external switch
- I am running a Latitude D6000
- I have not found any patch for the above named switch issue
- I have the drivers on my desktop however I'm not sure if they are installed right. I'm not sure how install works with linux.
- I am running backtrack 4 final
- I am not using this for the injection. Thats not my concern
- iwconfig says no wireless extensions
- Essiw says off/any
-


odule Size Used by
ipv6 239348 10
radeon 367328 2
drm 142208 3 radeon
sbs 10940 0
sbshc 4500 1 sbs
speedstep_centrino 5556 0
cpufreq_ondemand 7080 1
cpufreq_conservative 7048 0
cpufreq_stats 4728 0
freq_table 3476 3 speedstep_centrino,cpufreq_ondemand,cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_performance 1300 0
cpufreq_powersave 1268 0
iptable_filter 2324 0
ip_tables 10916 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 13592 1 ip_tables
lp 9412 0
snd_intel8x0 29616 0
snd_ac97_codec 100824 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 1364 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 37728 0
snd_mixer_oss 14324 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 67704 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
joydev 9728 0
snd_seq_dummy 2424 0
ipw2100 69768 0
libipw 26712 1 ipw2100
lib80211 5176 1 libipw
video 18024 0
output 2388 1 video
rtc_cmos 10156 0
rtc_core 15792 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 2388 1 rtc_core
parport_pc 24292 1
parport 30572 2 lp,parport_pc
snd_seq_oss 27328 0
snd_seq_midi 5952 0
yenta_socket 23680 1
rsrc_nonstatic 10612 1 yenta_socket
snd_rawmidi 19488 1 snd_seq_midi
psmouse 41732 0
pcmcia_core 31752 2 yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
snd_seq_midi_event 5972 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
serio_raw 5016 0
snd_seq 47568 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 19068 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 6048 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 50468 10 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_ti mer,snd_seq_device
iTCO_wdt 10584 0
iTCO_vendor_support 2840 1 iTCO_wdt
intel_agp 26108 1
soundcore 5856 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7836 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
shpchp 31560 0
agpgart 29356 2 drm,intel_agp
dcdbas 7092 0
evdev 9120 10
pata_acpi 3892 0
ata_generic 4536 0
fuse 53104 1
root@bt:~# modprobe - r b43
FATAL: Module _ not found.
root@bt:~# modprobe -r wl
root@bt:~# echo "blacklist b43" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
root@bt:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any Nickname:"ipw2100"
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
Retry short 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



If someone could provide any help at all I would much appreciate it. I have been reduced to entering random commands into root.

additional details
 

root@bt:~# dmesg | tail
mtrr: no MTRR for e8000000,2000000 found
agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 2.0 bridge
agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
pci 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
[drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
[drm] Loading R200 Microcode
[drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device eth0 left promiscuous mode
eth1: Radio is disabled by RF switch.
root@bt:~# lshw -C Network
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:0d:56:7c:c5:76
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pcix pm vpd msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.98 duplex=full firmware=5702-v2.25 ip=192.168.1.8 latency=64 link=yes mingnt=64 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
*-network:1
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:02:03.0
logical name: eth1
version: 04
serial: 00:04:23:a3:97:78
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2100 driverversion=git-1.2.2 firmware=712.0.3:3:00000001 latency=32 link=no maxlatency=34 mingnt=2 module=ipw2100 multicast=yes wireless=unassociated
root@bt:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any Nickname:"ipw2100"
Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
Retry short 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

root@bt:~# iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 No scan results