[ltp] R40 Wireless

[Reed Gregory]

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On Tuesday 17 February 2004 12:26 pm, kutch ariola wrote:
> I have a Intel PRO/Wireless Network Con. 802.11b how can I start it
> on Mandrake 9.2 beacause in Windows you will just simply press FN +
> F5 then you have your connection? ang how can i configure it? this is
> not connected to eth0.....

If this is a centrino card (part of the centrino package of proc, video,=20
wireless) then I dont think there is a Linux driver for this yet.  Some=20
people said something about using a NDIS layer with the windows driver. =20
Read something in the news about it a while back about Intel going to=20
release a binary driver, then later releasing and open driver for it.

Reed

> Thanks for your kind reply............
> Kutch
>
> >From: Mark Carroll <mark@chaos.x-philes.com>
> >Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> >To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> >Subject: Re: [ltp] R40 Wireless
> >Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:11:25 -0500 (EST)
> >
> >On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, kutch ariola wrote:
> >(snip)
> >
> > > I have a ThinkPad-R40 - 2722 on Mandrake 9.2 and Macrosoft
> > > Mindows XP Non-Pro (hihihihi)
> > >
> > > Can any one give suggestion on how can I use my 802.11 b Wireless
> >
> >because
> >(snip)
> >
> >Which wireless card do you have? (Maybe lspci will say if it's
> > built-in wireless, or your Windows drivers will.)
> >
> >(snip)
> >
> > > and in Addition does someone tried already to play a DVD on
> > > Mandrake 9.2
> >
> >coz
> >
> > > I tried to play my DVD which I bought it from Germany but it
> > > seems an
> >
> >Error
> >
> > > occured "ENCRYPTION Blah blah blah" does anyone encounterd this
> > > stuff,
> >
> >and
> >
> > > does any one has a solution for this...
> >
> >(snip)
> >
> >I wonder if the libdvdcss stuff or whatever will overcome the
> > problem. Unfortunately, although I have an American (region 1)
> > Thinkpad and British (region 2) DVDs, my Thinkpad's off for
> > warranty repair at the moment so I can't experiment for you. Do
> > Thinkpad DVD readers tend to have region coding that you can deal
> > with with appropriate software, or is this not a problem that
> > css-auth and whatever can overcome?
> >
> >-- Mark
> >--
> >The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> >http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
>
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Reed Gregory
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