need help with chrome os and laptop wireless

alienworkshop

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i need help, i looked all over the internet for a solution but couldn't find one. apparently google os doesn't support my wireless 2915 card on my inspiron 9200. does anyone know how to fix this? or install the necessary drivers? a walk through guide would be nice too. and yes, it's totally legal to download chrome os if your wondering. there's an official blog and download for it.

edit: btw, it works on my desktop which i am typing on it now with the live cd without installation, just wanted to troubleshoot to see if it works on here and it does, so apparently it works to some point.
 
Solution
Post output of lspci and dmesg to pastebin.com
dmesg likely will have some error about missing firmware.

Most likely chromeos does not come with the correct firmware for your card.
Your card appears to use ipw2200. https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Intel_PRO/Wireless_2915ABG_(WM3A2915ABG)
chromeos firmwares are found here (does not appear to have ipw2200 in the list)
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/linux-firmware/+/master

You can grab Ubuntu copy of the intel ipw2200 firmware from here:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_1.116.tar.gz
You will need to remount / as rw (default chromeos / is read only)
Extract the firmware from the tar.gz and copy ipw2200* files to /lib/firmware...
Post output of lspci and dmesg to pastebin.com
dmesg likely will have some error about missing firmware.

Most likely chromeos does not come with the correct firmware for your card.
Your card appears to use ipw2200. https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Intel_PRO/Wireless_2915ABG_(WM3A2915ABG)
chromeos firmwares are found here (does not appear to have ipw2200 in the list)
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/linux-firmware/+/master

You can grab Ubuntu copy of the intel ipw2200 firmware from here:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_1.116.tar.gz
You will need to remount / as rw (default chromeos / is read only)
Extract the firmware from the tar.gz and copy ipw2200* files to /lib/firmware. reboot.

Various ways to remount as rw... official chromeos way:
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/poking-around-your-chrome-os-device#TOC-Making-changes-to-the-filesystem
 
Solution
By default chromeos / partitions (/ is your root directory where the os is installed) is mounted as read only (RO). This means you cannot copy files to the partition. You cannot make changes to the filesystem.

You need to remount the file system as read/write (RW). This will enable you to make changes to the filesystem. (It is the equivalent of the write protect switch on old floppy disks.)
1) First get into "developer mode" http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/poking-around-your-chrome-os-device#TOC-Putting-your-Chrome-OS-Device-into-Developer-Mode
2) Remount / as rw http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/poking-around-your-chrome-os-device#TOC-Making-changes-to-the-filesystem

or another method like ssh from another pc.
1) ssh into your chromeos pc from another computer.
2)
Code:
sudo mount -o remount,rw /

I am not familiar with chromeos but i assume you can also do this via a livecd/liveusb.