[thinkpad] [ltp] T61: ipw3945 speed limited to 256 kbit/s?

[lou]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
> Yesterday I bought a Lenovo T61.  Today I'm about halfway through
> configuring Ubuntu Gutsy on it (pain pain pain).
>
> The worst problem at the moment is wireless speed: it seems to be
> limited to 32 kilobytes per second.  Ouch.  iwconfig eth1 shows
> "Bit Rate:54 Mb/s".  The card is an Intel 3945ABG, ipw3945 version is
> 1.2.1mp, according to dmesg.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Marius Gedminas
>   
FWIIW: I am getting about 1.1 meg down (from dslreports.com)  running 
wireless on my T61 with Kubuntu feisty fawn.. kernel upgraded to 2.6.22 
and the Nvdia drivers. But I had to set the thing for static IP address, 
it would not pull dynamic (wired worked fine out of the box after the 
kernel upgrade). Static is alright here but hard to live with on the road.
Silly me, I figured Lenovo would have Linux drivers for the T61 since 
they have them for th T60... More stuff doesn't work than does. My 
system will both suspend and hibernate... it just won't wake up from 
either. No brightness controls and no audio. No fingerprint thingie but 
that doesn't work for zilch in Vista anyway (it is a solution looking 
for a problem). I haven't tried to burn CD/DVD's but I see others having 
problems with that. I use the UltraBay for an additional hard drive anyway.
 
On the bright side, it boots really fast and VMWare (have to reinstall 
after the upgrade), Thunderbird and such work fine. Since I  never 
listen to audio and found a "fix" for the brightness problem (not yet 
installed) in the Thinklinux listserve there is some hope. Seems like 
lots of folks working on it.

It is the first OS/machine combination that I have seen that makes Vista 
look like a thoroughbred  :-) 

I found that SLED 10.1 installed the easiest, must be the Microsoft 
influence :-), but then neither USB or Wireless worked Hmmm, Microsoft 
influence, eh?

Summary:  Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?  :-)




-- 
Lou

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
    Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"