[ltp] Thinkpad wifi

[morpheus]

Well when I bought my t42p in June, the Intel chipset was only
supporting 802.11b, not g.  I asked IBM about it and they said that
Intel was very slow in developing 802.11g, which is why the IBM models
that support 802.11g have no "Centrino" trademark on them.
My guess is that they have different part number options.  You should be
careful when ordering to confirm support of 802.11g.  If you can get the
Intel chipset and it does support 802.11g, why not?  At any rate all I
can tell you is my experience with the Atheros chipset, which has been
fine.


On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 03:08, Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 22:36 -0400, morpheus wrote:
> > I have a T42p with the Atheros wifi chipset (part #31P9705).  I strongly
> > recommend this one over the Intel chipset, primarily because the Intel
> > set doesn't support 802.11g. I easily got the Atheros chipset to work
> > with Linux (FC2, 2.6 Kernel) using the madwifi drivers.  I've had no
> > problems in over three months using it.
> > -James
> 
> I strongly recommend the exact opposite. And you wrong about the Intel
> card not support 802.11g.
> 
> I'm using it right now on my T42p to send this email.
> 
> The Intel 2200BG card has 100% a open source driver that is being
> prepared for inclusion in the official kernel tree in the not too
> distant future. This means that the spring '05 releases of Linux
> distributions will work without any extra work. Anybody will be able to
> update and maintain the driver to make sure it continues to work with
> future kernels as the kernel API changes. This will happen even if Intel
> looses interest and moves their developers on to newer products.
> 
> The big drawback to the Atheros wifi, is that it taints the kernel
> rending it unsupportable. The driver will never become part of the
> official kernel tree due to the closed source pieces. You will always
> have to go get the driver separately and compile it yourself. There is
> no guarantee you'll be able to use this card in the future.
> 
> Dax