Wifi Help: Old HP Pavillion dv1000

I have a HP Pavillion dv1331se with Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 802.11b/g WLAN. Just yesterday, I decided to make devote it to very casual use (e.g. read, write, web browser) so I installed Linux Mint. Unfortunately, I forgot that it has problems connecting to wireless networks.

The network setting indicates wireless is unavailable. I am unable to turn it on either through the settings or the laptop buttons. If I remember correctly, an identical problem existed with Windows.

I was thinking that this is a hardware problem. Should I replace the wifi card in the laptop? Is there any way to verify that it is indeed the wifi card that is malfunctioning? Are there any limitations on what type of wifi card I can replace it with? I was hoping to spend as little on this as possible.

Thanks.

 

AFAIK, Intel's PRO/Wireless just needs a firmware. I think all you need to do is to install the "firmware-ipw2x00" package and reload the driver. You can do this either with a reboot, or run as root/superuser:

Code:

modprobe -r ipw2200
modprobe ipw2200

and then the wifi should be working.

 

That didn't work. I'm not sure if this is useful, but I used the command "dmesg | grep ipw2200" and this is what I got:

Code:

[    6.600188] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[    6.600193] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[    6.600342] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[    6.600372] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[    6.944694] ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
[    6.948095] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
[   24.884039] ipw2200: Failed to send POWER_MODE: Command timed out.
[   47.284049] ipw2200: Failed to send POWER_MODE: Command timed out.
[ 1855.868203] ipw2200: Failed to send POWER_MODE: Command timed out.
[ 2475.384210] ipw2200: Failed to send POWER_MODE: Command timed out.
[ 2479.223617] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 2479.423232] ipw2200: Unable to load ucode: -22
[ 2479.423254] ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -22
[ 2479.423256] ipw2200: Failed to up device
[ 2479.573145] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: restoring config space at offset 0xf (was 0x18030100, writing 0x18030104)
[ 2479.573145] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: restoring config space at offset 0x4 (was 0x0, writing 0xb0107000)
[ 2479.573145] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: restoring config space at offset 0x3 (was 0x0, writing 0x2008)
[ 2479.573145] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x2900000, writing 0x2900016)
[ 2479.715443] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 2479.716684] Modules linked in: parport_pc ppdev bnep rfcomm bluetooth binfmt_misc pcmcia yenta_socket pcmcia_rsrc snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm i915 snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event pcmcia_core snd_seq ipw2200 snd_timer snd_seq_device tifm_7xx1 tifm_core drm_kms_helper libipw drm snd cfg80211 lib80211 hp_wmi joydev sparse_keymap soundcore snd_page_alloc i2c_algo_bit wmi mac_hid video psmouse serio_raw lp parport 8139too firewire_ohci 8139cp firewire_core crc_itu_t sdhci_pci sdhci
[ 2479.716786]  [<e032e87c>] ipw_get_fw.isra.92.constprop.100+0x1c/0x100 [ipw2200]
[ 2479.716801]  [<e0335f36>] ipw_load+0x2f6/0x5a0 [ipw2200]
[ 2479.716832]  [<e0336233>] ipw_up+0x53/0x3d0 [ipw2200]
[ 2479.716841]  [<e03366cb>] ipw_bg_up+0x2b/0x40 [ipw2200]
[ 2479.716855]  [<e03366a0>] ? ipw_net_init+0x50/0x50 [ipw2200]
[ 2479.716883] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: firmware: ipw2200-bss.fw will not be loaded
[ 2479.716887] ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -16
[ 2479.716890] ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -16
[ 2483.847369] ipw2200: No space for Tx
[ 2483.847378] ipw2200: Failed to send POWER_MODE: Reason -16
[ 3196.938957] ipw2200: No space for Tx
[ 3196.938965] ipw2200: Failed to send POWER_MODE: Reason -16
[ 3197.983617] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 3198.346108] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: restoring config space at offset 0xf (was 0x18030100, writing 0x18030104)
[ 3198.346130] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: restoring config space at offset 0x4 (was 0x0, writing 0xb0107000)
[ 3198.346137] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: restoring config space at offset 0x3 (was 0x0, writing 0x2008)
[ 3198.346145] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x2900000, writing 0x2900016)
[ 3198.490190] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 3198.491238] Modules linked in: parport_pc ppdev bnep rfcomm bluetooth binfmt_misc pcmcia yenta_socket pcmcia_rsrc snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm i915 snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event pcmcia_core snd_seq ipw2200 snd_timer snd_seq_device tifm_7xx1 tifm_core drm_kms_helper libipw drm snd cfg80211 lib80211 hp_wmi joydev sparse_keymap soundcore snd_page_alloc i2c_algo_bit wmi mac_hid video psmouse serio_raw lp parport 8139too firewire_ohci 8139cp firewire_core crc_itu_t sdhci_pci sdhci
[ 3198.491335]  [<e032e87c>] ipw_get_fw.isra.92.constprop.100+0x1c/0x100 [ipw2200]
[ 3198.491350]  [<e0335f36>] ipw_load+0x2f6/0x5a0 [ipw2200]
[ 3198.491386]  [<e0336233>] ipw_up+0x53/0x3d0 [ipw2200]
[ 3198.491394]  [<e03366cb>] ipw_bg_up+0x2b/0x40 [ipw2200]
[ 3198.491409]  [<e03366a0>] ? ipw_net_init+0x50/0x50 [ipw2200]
[ 3198.491437] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: firmware: ipw2200-bss.fw will not be loaded
[ 3198.491441] ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -16
[ 3198.491445] ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -16
[ 3203.915702] ipw2200: No space for Tx
[ 3203.915711] ipw2200: Failed to send POWER_MODE: Reason -16
[ 3521.197103] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 3535.250444] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[ 3535.250456] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 3535.250710] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 3535.250759] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[ 3535.446118] ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
[ 3535.447658] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
[ 3664.828170] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 3669.939665] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[ 3669.939677] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 3669.939930] ipw2200 0000:06:06.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 3669.939977] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[ 3670.112912] ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
[ 3670.124100] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)

 

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