[ltp] SuSE 9.1 on ThinkPad?

Tim Prince linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 08 May 2004 08:37:27 -0700


At 11:06 PM 5/7/2004, Tim Prince wrote:

>At 07:26 PM 5/7/2004, Crispin Cowan wrote:
>
>
>>    * The T40 ships with at least three different mini-PCI WiFi cards.
>>      Mine came with the Intel Pro 2100 card.
>>          o SuSE correctly detected and identified the card, but the
>>            driver SuSE installed never worked.
>
>SuSE doesn't install the Intel firmware file, nor give any 
>assistance.  Once it's in, and YaST configured, the radio comes on, but 
>I'm still trying to get it to associate to my router instead of my 
>neighbor's weak signal.

When the transmitter is set to broadcast its essid, the SuSE installation 
does associate at boot, but I still don't get any data through eth1.


Tim Prince