Screwed up my debian wireless
- isapiens
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Screwed up my debian wireless
Hey guys, i was messing around with nmap, aircrack and airmon (i think)...
and i did smth to screw up my wireless.
Is there a way to just go back like in windows restore?
Cuz i really have no idea what i did or how to fix it.
THe way i made my wireless work was to put 4 downloaded file into /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. They are still there... but i dont see my wireless card recognized.
and i did smth to screw up my wireless.
Is there a way to just go back like in windows restore?
Cuz i really have no idea what i did or how to fix it.
THe way i made my wireless work was to put 4 downloaded file into /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. They are still there... but i dont see my wireless card recognized.
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isapiens@isapiens:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Proces sor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Exp ress Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Gr aphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US B UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US B UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US B UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US B UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US B2 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 (IC H6 Family) AC'97 Audio 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 0 3)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Contr oller (rev 03)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
03:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 08)
03:01.2 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSP ro Host Adapter (rev 17)
03:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connec tion (rev 05)
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I guess thats my wireless at the bottom.... so it does detect it. I gota make it work somehow.
I will reinstall those 4 files i was talking about, i am on ethernet right now so i can do that. [edit: that didnt help]
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Proces sor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Exp ress Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Gr aphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US B UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US B UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US B UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US B UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) US B2 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 (IC H6 Family) AC'97 Audio 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 0 3)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Contr oller (rev 03)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
03:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 08)
03:01.2 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSP ro Host Adapter (rev 17)
03:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connec tion (rev 05)
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I guess thats my wireless at the bottom.... so it does detect it. I gota make it work somehow.
I will reinstall those 4 files i was talking about, i am on ethernet right now so i can do that. [edit: that didnt help]
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eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:3F:DE:01:FC
inet addr:192.168.1.102 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::212:3fff:fede:1fc/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:73193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:46770 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:97889827 (93.3 MiB) TX bytes:4839457 (4.6 MiB)
Interrupt:193
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3648 (3.5 KiB) TX bytes:3648 (3.5 KiB)
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Here you go
it used to recognize the wireless. Before this happened i was screwing around with the monitor mode of/on with airodump-ng.... Dont know what happened. Works fine in windows so i didnt break it, which is probably not possible. Got to activate it back somehow maybe?
ps: i was also messing around with the channels...
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isapiens:/home/isapiens# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
ps: i was also messing around with the channels...
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You guys should have seen the effort i was making today.
I was building modules, installing firmware, checking kernel configurations... (has no idea what he did)
But then after a reboot the kernel 'encountered an error' and refused to load. It was a good run boyz, bloody well done!!!
ok... should i just reinstall linux or is there a way to restore the kernel to its defaults?
I was building modules, installing firmware, checking kernel configurations... (has no idea what he did)
But then after a reboot the kernel 'encountered an error' and refused to load. It was a good run boyz, bloody well done!!!
ok... should i just reinstall linux or is there a way to restore the kernel to its defaults?
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well, you can simply install a new kernel, but the problem is most likely not in the kernel itself and so the external bad config that is causing this problem will still be loaded afterwards.
so I recommend a new install, makes more sense than searching for an error that we will most likely not find anyway. and well, it's a good practice....at the beginning I sometimes had to re-install Linux twice a day...
are you satisfied with the distro you use so far? if not I can recommend Debian Lenny, my favorite desktop distro at the moment....
so I recommend a new install, makes more sense than searching for an error that we will most likely not find anyway. and well, it's a good practice....at the beginning I sometimes had to re-install Linux twice a day...
are you satisfied with the distro you use so far? if not I can recommend Debian Lenny, my favorite desktop distro at the moment....
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Are they really that different? ("etch" and "lenny"). I think i will stick to "etch" because i figured it is not in the "testing" stage like lenny, so it might be more stable and i will probably find more tutorials on it then on lenny.
PS: glad to know that screwing up your linux happens to other people then me
cheers
PS: glad to know that screwing up your linux happens to other people then me
cheers
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the difference between Etch (stable release) and Lenny (testing release) are the package versions. Lenny is pretty stable (at least I had no problems yet), and the network install worked like a charm for me, and that's why I recommend it. but I have to admit I haven't worked much with Etch yet...I simply had the feeling to work with something "risky" now that I am pretty advanced in Linux already....it's kinda fun to see how a distribution evolves.
so if you are used to Etch keep using it...
so if you are used to Etch keep using it...