[ltp] IBM wifi cards for t41p

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:23:06 -0400


On 9/13/06, Andreas Ntaflos <daff@dword.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 September 2006 18:35, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > Does anyone know which IBM Intel wifi FRUs will work in a T41p?  I've
> > got the Atheros one at the moment, but I'm sick of dealing with
> > madwifi.  I'd like to get a 2915abg or barring that a 2200bg.
>
> Out of curiosity, what do you have against madwifi? I have a T41p
> running Gentoo with the Atheros chip and it is working fine (not to say
> perfectly) with madwifi 0.9.2.

Scanning doesn't seem to work and edgy doesn't seem to keep the
'restricted modules' package up to date with the latest kernel
packages.  Plus, I'd rather not use binary drivers.

Alex

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> Just wondering.
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> Andreas
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