[ltp] Drivers for the R50p (183222U) wifi?

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 22:11:36 +0200, Niel Lambrechts
<antispam@absamail.co.za> wrote:
> 1. Depends. If you buy the IBM card you can use madwifi with no issues
> afaik.
> 2. ATI's crappy fglrx driver has been through a multitude of releases:
> and still not fixed under ACPI, not sure about APM.
> And yes, I have reported this to them in detail on at least 5 occasions.
> The last two times I didn't even get any type of acknowledgement.

I don't think you're going to have much luck with any xorg/xfree86
driver under APM or ACPI.  The problem is that X is all userland for
the most part and doesn't currently handle kernel events like acpi D
states.  since ATI (and nvidia) have to work with this infrastructure
I don't think you are really going to see this situation change
anytime soon.  Xorg and linux kernel developers are planning to revamp
the whole linux graphics system, but until that's done I wouldn't
expect any driver to fully support power management.

Alex

> 
> Sigh.
> 
> -Niel
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org
> > [mailto:linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org] On Behalf Of
> > Norman Walsh
> > Sent: 01 September 2004 09:22 PM
> > To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> > Subject: [ltp] Drivers for the R50p (183222U) wifi?
> >
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I am "this close" to buying the R50p. I only have a couple of
> > reservations.
> >
> > 1. What is the state of drivers for the builtin wifi. I gather it's a
> >    miniPCI card that I could swap out, but, well, if there's already
> >    support that'd be easier.
> >
> > 2. Googling around reveals some issues with getting suspend/resume to
> >    work reliably under X. Has that been worked out?
> >
> > Thanks, in advance.
> >
> >                                         Be seeing you,
> >                                           norm
> >
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