Old Dell Latitude D610 Wireless missing

[Ed_P]

With the grandkids all taking classes at home I'm trying to get an old notebook working for them. I've installed Porteus Cinnamon x586 on it for them and it is working except for the wireless part. The network only shows Wired. I tried some Broadcom fixes but they didn't help and looking at a lspci I see why.

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root@porteus:/home/guest# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI6515 Cardbus Controller
03:01.5 Communication controller: Texas Instruments PCI6515 SmartCard Controller
03:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
root@porteus:/home/guest# 

While the Ethernet controller is Broadcom the Network controller is Intel.

Help.

[jssouza]

Maybe missing firmware, you probably need the ipw2200 firmware package from Slackware.
What are the outputs of these commands (as root)?
lspci -knn
lsmod
dmesg | grep firmware

[Ed_P]

Thank you jssouza.

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guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# lspci -knn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller [8086:2590] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Dell Dell Latitude C610 [1028:0182]
	Kernel modules: intel_agp
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller [8086:2592] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0182]
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller [8086:2792] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0182]
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2660] (rev 03)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 [8086:2658] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0182]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 [8086:2659] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0182]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 [8086:265a] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0182]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.3 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 [8086:265b] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0182]
	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:265c] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0182]
	Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:266e] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Dell Latitude D610 Laptop [1028:0182]
	Kernel driver in use: snd_intel8x0
	Kernel modules: snd_intel8x0
00:1e.3 Modem [0703]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller [8086:266d] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Conexant Systems, Inc. Device [14f1:5423]
	Kernel modules: 8250_pci, snd_intel8x0m
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:2641] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0182]
	Kernel modules: intel_rng
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller [8086:2653] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0182]
	Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1677] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Dell Latitude D610 [1028:0182]
	Kernel driver in use: tg3
	Kernel modules: tg3
03:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI6515 Cardbus Controller [104c:8036]
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0182]
	Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
	Kernel modules: yenta_socket
03:01.5 Communication controller [0780]: Texas Instruments PCI6515 SmartCard Controller [104c:8038]
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0182]
03:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection [8086:4223] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1020]
	Kernel modules: ipw2200
root@porteus:/home/guest# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ipv6                  233472  12
dcdbas                 12288  0
dell_smm_hwmon         12288  0
ppdev                  12288  0
parport_pc             24576  0
parport                32768  2 parport_pc,ppdev
input_leds             12288  0
acpi_cpufreq           12288  0
led_class              12288  1 input_leds
8250_pci               32768  0
i915                  888832  4
rng_core               12288  0
snd_intel8x0           24576  2
8250                   12288  1 8250_pci
8250_base              24576  2 8250_pci,8250
serial_core            20480  2 8250,8250_base
ipw2200               102400  0
libipw                 24576  1 ipw2200
snd_ac97_codec         77824  1 snd_intel8x0
lib80211               12288  1 libipw
ac97_bus               12288  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                45056  2 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0
snd_timer              20480  1 snd_pcm
cfg80211              163840  2 ipw2200,libipw
tg3                   114688  0
pcmcia                 28672  0
rfkill                 16384  1 cfg80211
ptp                    16384  1 tg3
pps_core               12288  1 ptp
libphy                 28672  1 tg3
intel_agp              12288  0
intel_gtt              16384  2 intel_agp,i915
shpchp                 24576  0
yenta_socket           20480  0
pcmcia_rsrc            12288  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            16384  3 yenta_socket,pcmcia,pcmcia_rsrc
root@porteus:/home/guest# dmesg | grep firmware
[    9.366218] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[    9.480085] ipw2200 0000:03:03.0: Direct firmware load for ipw2200-bss.fw failed with error -2
[    9.480091] ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
[    9.480093] ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
root@porteus:/home/guest# 

[jssouza]

Looks like the firmware is missing

ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
[ 9.480093] ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2

You can try to download the ipw2200 firmware.

As root:

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getpkg ipw2200-fw

And copy the created xzm to your modules directory and reboot.

And how will you download the package without connected to the network?

The network only shows Wired

You cannot download from your x64 system coz it will download the 64 bit variant, while you need the 32 bit variant (I checked both their md5sums and they differ, so they are different pkgs)
Here's the direct link to the txz slackware package if you have to download from another system http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware ... 1-fw-1.txz
Copy it to this system and then to a txz2xzm and copy it your modules dir.

[Ed_P]

Thanks jssouza.

I got an email from neko about the ipw2200 module that I tried and it failed. But I downloaded on my x64 system so that may be the problem.

To get files to the x86 system I copy them on my x64 system to a flash drive and plug it into the x86 system.

BTW With neko's file I renamed it 000-ipw2200.xzm so it would load before other modules. Could that cause a problem?

Added in 5 hours 48 minutes 49 seconds:
Good news, bad news.

The slackware file you pointed me to jssouza converted to a xzm on the x86 machine activates the wireless controller and I can see the router connections in the area.

For whatever reason the wifi connections refuse my password entry attempts. I put them in, view them to be sure they are correct, press enter and 30 secs later I get the password prompt again.

[jssouza]

Check dmesg if you get any error message, esp. wrt the firmware loading.
Wild theory would be the driver (porteus 4 days) is old for the newer firmware (from slackware current). But I doubt it.

Try reloading the driver. As root:

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modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200

FWIW, provide also the output of uname -a

[Ed_P]

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[ 4966.027998] eth1: Setting MAC to b2:28:33:0b:ae:51
[ 4966.551334] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
[ 5281.057822] eth1: Setting MAC to 7e:cd:ba:f8:90:36
guest@porteus:~$ 
guest@porteus:~$ 
guest@porteus:~$ dmesg | grep err
[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[    0.039378] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[    0.123786] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 9 10 *11)
[    0.123897] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 7) *10
[    0.124110] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *9 10 11)
[    0.124219] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *5 7 9 10 11)
[    0.124314] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[    0.124414] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[    0.124513] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[    0.481163] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[    0.481202] wbsd: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[    8.924155] yenta_cardbus 0000:03:01.0: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
[    8.924157] yenta_cardbus 0000:03:01.0: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
[    9.193868] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[ 3491.539989] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
[ 4138.937208] xed[2004]: segfault at a6cdae48 ip aa612143 sp bff35910 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.1[aa5c3000+11e000]
                        opcode=0x4a 4a 01 00 00 10 00 00 00 08 00res 58/00:01:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x12 (ATA bus error)
                        opcode=0x4a 4a 01 00 00 10 00 00 00 08 00res 58/00:01:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x12 (ATA bus error)
[ 4881.620256] xed[2052]: segfault at ad3a6e48 ip b14de143 sp bfbb9310 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.1[b148f000+11e000]
[ 4966.551334] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
guest@porteus:~$ 
guest@porteus:~$ uname -a
Linux porteus 4.16.3-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 21 18:14:53 Local time zone must be set-- i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
guest@porteus:~$ 
guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200
root@porteus:/home/guest# 

[tom2238]

Hi
I have this laptop and successfully using Porteus 3.2.2 with 4.9.0-porteus kernel.

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guest@porteus:~$ uname -a
Linux porteus 4.9.0-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 18 16:24:27 Local time zone must be set-- i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

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guest@porteus:~$ dmesg | grep -i ipw
[   67.703523] libipw: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[   67.703526] libipw: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <[email protected]>
[   67.964977] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmpr
[   67.964980] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[   67.966250] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
[   68.992537] ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
[   68.993206] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZE (13 802.11bg channels, 19 802.11a channels)

And little modification

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guest@porteus:~$ cat /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf 
# /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
#
# See NetworkManager.conf(5) for more information on this file

[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=0		# add this line

........

[Ed_P]

I tried your NetworkManager change tom2238 but still no network connection.

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guest@porteus:~$ cat /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
# /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
#
# See NetworkManager.conf(5) for more information on this file

[main]
plugins=keyfile
dhcp=dhclient

[keyfile]
hostname=porteus

[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=0   # tom2238
guest@porteus:~$ 

guest@porteus:~$ dmesg | grep -i ipw
[    9.630442] libipw: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[    9.630445] libipw: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <[email protected]>
[    9.648414] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmpr
[    9.648418] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[    9.648722] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
[   10.066704] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZA (11 802.11bg channels, 13 802.11a channels)
guest@porteus:~$ dmesg | grep -i err
[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[    0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[    0.039351] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[    0.124068] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 9 10 *11)
[    0.124180] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 7) *10
[    0.124290] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *9 10 11)
[    0.124399] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *5 7 9 10 11)
[    0.124495] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[    0.124595] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[    0.124694] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[    0.480804] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[    0.480843] wbsd: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[    9.080917] yenta_cardbus 0000:03:01.0: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
[    9.080919] yenta_cardbus 0000:03:01.0: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
[    9.481781] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
guest@porteus:~$ 

[donald]

Hi Ed

https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... 175622954/

or try if it works with porteus 3.2.2 -- the firmware is present.

[Ed_P]

Thanks donald. A Porteus 3.x system does work on the Dell but Firefox 63.0.3-i686-1, which works on the Porteus 4 system, doesn't. I get "Firefox had a problem and crashed". I can't win.

[donald]

Ed
Some options for experimenting:
another browser - pale moon?

If it has to be Firefox, then:
Take port 4 > try the firmware of port 3 if they are different.
If this doesn't help, change the kernel as well.
or try installing the CRDA thing.

[Ed_P]

My 3.x system proved to be a 3.0.1 RazorQT based system. I'll look for a 3.2.2 version.

And while the Firefox on the 3.0.1 system works it doesn't work completely, in that it doesn't support access to the Porteus forum, even via a Google search. So upgrading things on the old Dell means downloading things on the new Dell and copying them to a flash drive then copying them to the old Dell with Windows XP then modifying the grub2dos menu to boot them. At the rate I'm going the pandemic will be over before the old Dell is functional.

Thank donald.

[donald]

hmmm...Isn't it possible to install port onto a usb thumbdrive
and boot the "old" dell with that one?

[Ed_P]

The thumbdrive has a x86-64 port system on it.

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Cinnamon 3.2.2 - AF mode - wireless connections show. Activating one brings up "Connection failed Activation of network connection failed." Went into Settings and added the password, retried, same message.

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3.0.1 system firefox error.

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guest@porteus:~$ firefox
failed to find gam_server
ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 2912
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...
guest@porteus:~$ 

guest@porteus:~$ ls /mnt/live/memory/images
000-kernel.xzm/  002-xorg.xzm/   firefox-63.0.3-i686-1.xzm/
001-core.xzm/    003-razor.xzm/  flashplayer-plugin-24.0.0.186-i386-2alien.xzm/
guest@porteus:~$