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

[Jeff D]

Jan Girlich wrote:

> 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

I ran into this problem with my T30 with an intel 2200bg mini-pci card.
I beleive this has to do with a bios setting. You can find a hack here 
that will explain it.

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/thinkpad/wireless.html

hth
Jeff