[ltp] Re: T40 802.11a/b card support - in the works?

Dirk Husemann linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:53:00 +0200


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On 06/20/2003 01:21 PM, Tino Keitel wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 13:14:40 +0200, Dirk Husemann wrote:
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>>On 06/19/2003 10:19 PM, Valient Gough wrote:
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[...]

>>I've been asking IBM technical support about Linux drivers for a 
>>couple weeks, and today got a response that shows some promise - at 
>>least IBM is aware that people would like to use Linux on the T40:
>>
>>[...]
>>    
>>
>>Is that a Cisco miniPCI card? like
>>
>>02:02.0 Network controller: AIRONET Wireless Communications: Unknown 
>>device a504
>>
>>there are drivers for that one available from Cisco (and I've got it 
>>running on my box, a modified T30).
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>
>Hum, does that mean that there is at least one driver for 54 mbit WLAN
>for Linux? Or does it support only 11 mbit?
>  
>
no, that would only be 11 Mbps...sorry, didn't pay enough attention.

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On 06/20/2003 01:21 PM, Tino Keitel wrote:<br>
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  <pre wrap="">On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 13:14:40 +0200, Dirk Husemann wrote:
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    <pre wrap="">On 06/19/2003 10:19 PM, Valient Gough wrote:
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[...]<br>
<blockquote type="cite"
 cite="mid20030620112120.GQ13964@tkeitel001.bln.innominate.local">
  <blockquote type="cite">
    <pre wrap="">
I've been asking IBM technical support about Linux drivers for a 
couple weeks, and today got a response that shows some promise - at 
least IBM is aware that people would like to use Linux on the T40:

[...]
    </pre>
    <pre wrap="">Is that a Cisco miniPCI card? like

02:02.0 Network controller: AIRONET Wireless Communications: Unknown 
device a504

there are drivers for that one available from Cisco (and I've got it 
running on my box, a modified T30).
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"
 cite="mid20030620112120.GQ13964@tkeitel001.bln.innominate.local">
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Hum, does that mean that there is at least one driver for 54 mbit WLAN
for Linux? Or does it support only 11 mbit?
  </pre>
</blockquote>
no, that would only be 11 Mbps...sorry, didn't pay enough attention.<br>
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