[Tfug] Damned Intel WiFi (2200BG series mini-PCI) stopped working. ..

[Jim March]

Well Acer isn't as sick-in-the-head as IBM on this issue :).

Jesus, you mean to tell me the IBM laptops refuse to boot if you stick
a different WiFi card in?  Ghaaaa.

Jim

On 9/18/07, hharden71 at netzero.net <hharden71 at netzero.net> wrote:
> You probably found these references already, but in case you hadn't
>
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_PRO/Wireless_2200BG_Mini-PCI_Adapter
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_unauthorized_MiniPCI_network_card
>
> Hope one of those helps.
> -Henry H.
>
> -- "Jim March" <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well this may explain it: note the "radio off" thing on Eth1 (the
> Intel WiFi card)!?
>
> ---jim at jim-acer:~$ iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>
> eth1      radio off  ESSID:""
>           Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: Not-Associated
>           Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power=off   Sensitivity=8/0
>           Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr: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
>
> wifi0     no wireless extensions.
>
> ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"jimnet"  Nickname:""
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.417 GHz  Access Point: 00:15:E9:D8:F7:B9
>           Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:15 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
>           Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality=57/94  Signal level=-39 dBm  Noise level=-96 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:824  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> jim at jim-acer:~$
>
> Jim again: note that pulling the Ath0 PCMCIA card doesn't help any.
>
>
>
> On 9/18/07, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> > SIGH.
> >
> > OK.  Some may recall the saga to date.  Extreme short form: the
> > internal Atheros-based mini-pci WiFi card in my Acer laptop died of
> > "coke overdose" at one of the TFUG meets.  While selling an old
> > Fujitsu carcass for it's screen I noticed it had an internal mini-pci
> > Intel 2200BG series card - yanked that, dropped it in the Acer, worked
> > GREAT.
> >
> > Until now.
> >
> > Ubuntu (7.04) seems to see it.  It appears as an "Eth1" device same as
> > always, Eth0 (hardwire Ethernet) is present and working and if I put
> > my Atheros-based PCMCIA card in, it shows up as Ath0.
> >
> > When the Intel card worked, I could still insert the PCMCIA WiFi Ath0
> > device and under the Network Manager pull-down menu in Gnome it would
> > list all available SSIDs twice, grouped under the Atheros (PCMCIA) and
> > Intel cards.  It was kinda neat, because you could see at a glance how
> > much more signal strength the Intel card had.
> >
> > Those "group names" (Intel 2200BG and Atheros) are still listed as
> > usual, but with no SSIDs under the Intel card.  It's as if somebody
> > snipped the antenna cables, but since I'm hooking to a router one FOOT
> > away I figure it oughta work with no antenna at all?
> >
> > I popped the access plate, re-seated the Intel card and checked the
> > antenna connections.  It all looks fine.
> >
> > Somebody mentioned a second set of drivers (open source vs. the binary
> > blob I'm on now)?  I'm thinking I should swap them out, see if that's
> > it rather than the card mysteriously going "poof"?
> >
> > Any other advice?  This is a damned nuisance...
> >
> > Jim
> >
>
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