[ltp] Wireless with T60p and Fedora 7

[Jeffrey Franc-Law]

I worked on this for several days....finally gave up and replaced the
mini-pci card with the Intel 3945.  I contacted the salesperson I had
bought the machine from, and they actually sent me the pci card for
free.  I installed it myself with minimal trouble and moderate anxiety.

Google search seemed to reveal that a few people had got the 5418
working with madwifi:  apparently this is the same as one of the Apple
"airport" (or whatever they are called): however, it appears that most
people were not able to get this to work.

madwifi does NOT list this as a compatible card when I last checked.

Under the 32 bit systems it appears it will work with ndiswrapper,
however, i could not get the 64 bit ndiswrapper to work with the 64 bit
windows drivers for vista.

ciao,
jfl


Wayne Topa wrote:
> Greg Sieranski(greg.sieranski@quoininc.com) is reported to have said:
>> I have a  Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5418 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless PCI 
>> Express Adapter (rev 01) on my Thinkpad T60p running Fedora 7. I have been 
>> unable to get the wireless up and running. I have tried the madwifi driver 
>> with minimal success and most attempts ending with the driver causing a 
>> Kernal error. Has anyone been able to get wireless working under F7 with 
>> the AR5418 card?
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Have you checked the madwife Compatability page to see if it is listed
> as working with Linux?
> 
> Wayne
> 

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