[ltp] Mini-PCI 802.11b on R40?

[Dan Borello]

I used the cisco card in my T40 with no problems in the bios.  There are two good drivers out.  I was unable to get gnome wireless's applet to view signal strength but otherwise had no problems.  There are reports of it having troubles with a large amount of traffic (over an hour).  

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.asp?EDC=421792

I ordered that one, the thinkpad accepted it.

dan



---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:04:19 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Mark Carroll <mark@chaos.x-philes.com>  
>Subject: [ltp] Mini-PCI 802.11b on R40?  
>To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>
>I'm fed up of having a PCMCIA card's antenna sticking out of the side of
>my R40 so I want to pop a mini-PCI card in instead that uses the
>integrated antenna.
>
>http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/results/documentPrintableContent.vm?layout=templates/esupport/layouts/printLayout.vm
>seems to describe the permitted adapters. I'm hoping that someone here has
>mini-PCI working nicely and can recommend adapter and driver.
>
>I'm currently using kernel 2.4.18 and it'd be great if I could just
>compile the driver in instead of loading it as a module, but that's no big
>deal.
>
>I guess the main options are:
>
>(a) Use an "approved" card. From the list, the only one I'm vaguely aware
>has Linux drivers available is the "Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b". Do
>they mean the 350 or something? I don't want to buy a card and have the
>BIOS reject it because I bought slightly the wrong one. AFAIK the 350
>mini-PCI Cisco card has some driver from Cisco available, and Ben Reed has
>been working on one, both with good licences, but it's not clear to me how
>good either of them are right now. Basically, can anyone suggest exactly
>which card will work (Cisco or non-Cisco), and which driver?
>
>(b) Flash the BIOS with a hacked image that isn't so picky about mini-PCI
>wireless cards. Is anyone doing this?
>
>Basically, any hints would be great; I'm having trouble figuring out
>exactly what will work. When I finally have Linux working as I'd like on
>the R40 I'll put up a web page describing exactly what I did.
>
>-- Mark
>
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