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Re: Success after all!!! - was: Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem

From Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Success after all!!! - was: Re: Totally non-functioning wifi card- starting again completely was: Re: Laptop wireless problem
Date 2016-07-05 00:40 +0200
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On Monday 04 July 2016 23:36:44 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Monday 04 July 2016 17:37:00 Brian wrote:
> > On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 15:37:42 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Monday 04 July 2016 15:16:23 Brian wrote:
> > >
> > > It isn't.   It is just a short quotation to show the ipw 2200 and the
> > > DRIVERS=="?*", because it bothered me that the drivers bit just had a
> > > question mark, but apparently my worry about that was misplaced.  Whole
> > > file beneath my signature.
> >
> > Full quotes are always preferable. If I were in your position I'd
> > regenerate the file. You've possibly got at least one device there
> > which is not on the machine. Let the system take care of things.
> >
> > Be that as it may, you appear to have all necessary firmware and
> > drivers. So, how do you fancy a bit of low level stuff?
>
> Trying again.
>
> > Reboot and first check firmware loading from 'journalctl'.
>
> root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# journalctl -b | grep 2200
> Jul 04 23:10:49 debian-wheezy kernel: ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless
> 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
> Jul 04 23:10:49 debian-wheezy kernel: ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel
> Corporation
> Jul 04 23:10:49 debian-wheezy kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless
> 2200BG Network Connection
> Jul 04 23:10:49 debian-wheezy kernel: ipw2200 0000:03:03.0: firmware:
> direct-loading firmware ipw2200-bss.fw
> Jul 04 23:10:49 debian-wheezy kernel: ipw2200: Detected geography ZZD (13
> 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
> Jul 04 23:11:06 debian-wheezy NetworkManager[1239]: <info> rfkill0: found
> WiFi radio killswitch
> (at
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:03:03.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill0)
> (driver ipw2200)
> Jul 04 23:11:07 debian-wheezy NetworkManager[1239]: <info> (wlan0): new
> 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'ipw2200' ifindex: 3)
> root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah#
>
> > Then
> > issue the command 'wpa_cli'.
> >
> > 1. wpa-cli
> >      You get a prompt ">". This is interactive mode. A selected
> >      interface should be shown. TAB completion of commands works.
> >      Command history is with the UP and DOWN keys. The following
> >      commands are typed at the prompt.
> >
> > 2. add_network
> >      You'll probably get 0 for the network number.
> >
> > 3. set_network 0 ssid "Your_SSID"
> >      The response should be "OK".
> >
> > 4. set_network psk "Your_passphrase"
> >      The response should be "OK".
> >
> > 5. enable_network 0
> >      The response should be "OK". Authentication and association
> >      should take place.
> >
> > 6. status 0
> >      Has it?
>
> I don't *believe* it!
>
>
> root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# wpa_cli
> wpa_cli v2.3
> Copyright (c) 2004-2014, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors
>
> This software may be distributed under the terms of the BSD license.
> See README for more details.
>
>
> Selected interface 'wlan0'
>
> Interactive mode
>
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
>
> > add_network
>
> 0
>
> > set_network 0 ssid "NETGEAR08"
>
> OK
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
>
> > set_network psk "yyyyyyyyyyyyy"
>
> Invalid SET_NETWORK command: needs three arguments
> (network id, variable name, and value)
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
>
> > set_network 0 psk "yyyyyyyyyyyyy"
>
> OK
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
>
> > enable network 0
>
> OK
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
> <3>Trying to associate with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (SSID='NETGEAR08' freq=2437 MHz)
> <3>Association request to the driver failed
> <3>Associated with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> <3>WPA: Key negotiation completed with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP]
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx completed [id=0
> id_str=]
> <3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
>
> [1]+  Stopped                 wpa_cli
> root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# ping 192.168.0.1
> PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.475 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.491 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.483 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.429 ms
> ^C
> --- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
> 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2999ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.429/0.469/0.491/0.032 ms
> root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# ping www.google.co.uk
> PING www.google.co.uk (216.58.213.163) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from lhr26s02-in-f3.1e100.net (216.58.213.163): icmp_seq=1 ttl=57
> time=12.5 ms
> 64 bytes from lhr26s02-in-f3.1e100.net (216.58.213.163): icmp_seq=2 ttl=57
> time=12.4 ms
> 64 bytes from lhr26s02-in-f3.1e100.net (216.58.213.163): icmp_seq=3 ttl=57
> time=13.2 ms
> 64 bytes from lhr26s02-in-f3.1e100.net (216.58.213.163): icmp_seq=4 ttl=57
> time=11.6 ms
> 64 bytes from lhr26s02-in-f3.1e100.net (216.58.213.163): icmp_seq=5 ttl=57
> time=12.1 ms
> ^C
> --- www.google.co.uk ping statistics ---
> 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4007ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 11.610/12.405/13.225/0.526 ms
> root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah#
>
>
> Brilliant! \o/ \o/  But what next??
>
> I stand rebuked for my lack of faith. :-(
>
>  I hope that it is not permanent as i am about to change the passphrase -
> but I suppose that I could always call it network 1 in future.
>
> I really can't start dancing jigs around the house at this time of night 
> at my age!!!!
>
> Lisi

I forgot in all teh joy of it owtrking:

root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# wpa_cli
wpa_cli v2.3
Copyright (c) 2004-2014, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors

This software may be distributed under the terms of the BSD license.
See README for more details.


Selected interface 'wlan0'

Interactive mode

> status 0
bssid=00:8e:f2:8f:58:58
freq=0
ssid=NETGEAR08
id=0
mode=station
pairwise_cipher=CCMP
group_cipher=CCMP
key_mgmt=WPA2-PSK
wpa_state=COMPLETED
address=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
uuid=<string-of-numbers>

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