[ltp] IBM 11a/b/g mini-PCI Wireless card

Alexander Gran linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:35:31 +0100


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Hi,

the led doesn't work yet, but the driver does.
You need to configure it with iwconfig, though.

alex

Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2003 21:46 schrieb VINCENT R=E9mi:
> Hi,
> I have followed what you say but I can't get my IBM 11a/b mini-PCI Wirele=
ss
> card working. The driver (madwifi) compile fine and modules loads fine to=
o,
> but the light on the system state still just stay off (I have no other wi=
fi
> product so I just test if it's on or not by looking the led). The thing I
> am wondering about is that I've got the wireless card deactivated under
> windows by pressing Fn+F5 and choosing it on the On Screen Display, so I'm
> just wondering if it can have disable totally my wireless card??? I no
> totally sure but when the madwifi driver loads he found the good MAC
> Address but after nothing append??? so does your card work without turning
> the system state led on, or my card doesn't work???
>
> Thanks in advance and sorry if my english is a bit poor, it's not my first
> language.
>
> VINCENT R=E9mi
>
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:45:13 +0100 (MET)
>
> Bernd Zeimetz <zeimetz@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Has anyone had success with the IBM 11a/b/g mini-PCI Wireless card
> > > available for T40's and T41's?  The card is made by Atheros
> > > (http://www.atheros.com/news/linux.html), and there is a Linux
> > > driver under development at
> > > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/), but I haven't been able
> > > to discover how well it works (if at all) for the IBM cards.
> >
> > madwifi works fine, although there are still some bugs. You should
> > compile it from CVS, there are new patches and features added really
> > often.
> >
> >
> > Bernd
> >
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