[ltp] How to get MiniPCI-WLAN working on T23?

[Jan Girlich]

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Hello,

a friend of mine got a MiniPCI-WLAN-card for his T23. He bought also two 
antennas and built them in the lid.
Plugged the card in the T23 and SuSE 9.2 found it and installed it flawless.

Everything seems to be right, but he can't find any accesspoints. 
"iwlist wlan0 scan" just says:
wlan0	no scan results

It doesn't work with winXP, too.

So it seems to be a hardware related problem.

Has anyone an idea what could be wrong? (e.g. firmware, special tricks, 
BIOS-tweaking etc?)

The card is an modem-802.11b combo-card from Actiontec Electronics. 
Actually I couldn't find the adapter at www.actiontec.com, but I found 
this site at IBM, which talks about the same card I think.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40236


This is as what what the card shows up:

# lspci -v
0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan 
chipset (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Actiontec Electronics Inc: Unknown device 0406
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
	Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

Feel free to ask for more information, please.

Thanks in advance
Jan

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