LM17: no wireless with intel 2915 abg kernel 3.13.0-32

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Hello,

My wireless card does not seem to be working on LM 17 with kernel 3.13.0.30. No wireless connections appear in the network manager applet. Furthermore, mintwifi says:

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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
      ==> PCI ID = 8086:4223 (rev 05)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0b:97:2f:e2:e9  
          inet addr:192.168.1.65  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20b:97ff:fe2f:e2e9/64 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: 2001:41d0:fe12:c200:20b:97ff:fe2f:e2e9/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: 2001:41d0:fe12:c200:74aa:1b99:46ad:13e6/64 Scope:Global
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:439 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:572 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:402111 (402.1 KB)  TX bytes:83479 (83.4 KB)

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:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:174 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:174 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:13970 (13.9 KB)  TX bytes:13970 (13.9 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server:		91.121.161.184
Address:	91.121.161.184#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.34.8
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.34.9
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.34.7
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.34.3
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.34.4
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.34.5
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.34.6
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.34.1
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.34.14
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.34.2
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.34.0

No wireless extension..???
Here's what inxi says:

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Network:   Card-1: Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection 
           IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
           Card-2: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter driver: 8139too 
           IF: eth0 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:0b:97:2f:e2:e9

I don't understand why the card does not work with kernel -32. With the default LM17 kernel, -24, it works just fine. I use the xfce desktop.
NOTE: I upgraded to kernel rev. -32 because I am trying to solve an issue with my video card. Kernel -32 seems to help with that, so I'd like to keep it. On the other hand, if it breaks wifi.....

Thanks a lot!

[JeremyB]

Can you boot into an older kernel using the "Previous LinuxMint Editions" in the grub menu? If you normally do not see the grub menu at boot, try holding the spacebar down at boot

It would be interesting to see what

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lsmod

shows for loaded modules when wifi does work

[abcdef]

Thank you for your reply. Here is the output of lsmod on a kernel where wifi works:

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Module                  Size  Used by
michael_mic            12540  4 
arc4                   12509  2 
lib80211_crypt_tkip    17433  1 
lib80211_crypt_ccmp    12919  1 
gpio_ich               13364  0 
dm_multipath           22654  0 
scsi_dh                14449  1 dm_multipath
snd_intel8x0           37671  2 
snd_ac97_codec        110487  1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus               12642  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                88093  2 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0
snd_seq_midi           13324  0 
binfmt_misc            13172  1 
snd_seq_midi_event     14475  1 snd_seq_midi
ipw2200               142113  0 
snd_rawmidi            25786  1 snd_seq_midi
libipw                 33468  1 ipw2200
lib80211               14040  4 lib80211_crypt_ccmp,lib80211_crypt_tkip,libipw,ipw2200
snd_seq                56978  2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device         14137  3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
cfg80211              436806  2 libipw,ipw2200
pcmcia                 56297  0 
snd_timer              29036  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd                    67102  11 snd_ac97_codec,snd_intel8x0,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
panasonic_laptop       13337  0 
yenta_socket           44636  0 
lpc_ich                17000  0 
joydev                 17311  0 
soundcore              14635  1 snd
serio_raw              13251  0 
pcmcia_rsrc            18495  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            22396  3 pcmcia,pcmcia_rsrc,yenta_socket
parport_pc             32154  0 
sparse_keymap          13658  1 panasonic_laptop
ppdev                  17423  0 
tpm_infineon           17009  0 
mac_hid                13099  0 
lp                     13359  0 
parport                40945  3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
dm_mirror              21989  0 
dm_region_hash         16141  1 dm_mirror
dm_log                 18164  2 dm_region_hash,dm_mirror
i915                  837697  3 
i2c_algo_bit           13316  1 i915
drm_kms_helper         55395  1 i915
8139too                32828  0 
8139cp                 27313  0 
drm                   257031  5 i915,drm_kms_helper
psmouse                97427  0 
mii                    13693  2 8139cp,8139too
sdhci_pci              18682  0 
sdhci                  38680  1 sdhci_pci
video                  19865  1 i915

Note that I've ugraded to 3.16, and wifi works there. However, I'm not yet sure what kernel is the best re my graphics problem, so I might end up reverting to an older version - therefore, the answer to that question is still useful to me
Thank you.