[ltp] How to get MiniPCI-WLAN working on T23?

[morpheus]

Can you give me the output of iwconfig wlan0?
What driver are you using?

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 19:54 +0100, Jan Girlich wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> a friend of mine got a MiniPCI-WLAN-card for his T23. He bought also two 
> antennas and built them in the lid.
> Plugged the card in the T23 and SuSE 9.2 found it and installed it flawless.
> 
> Everything seems to be right, but he can't find any accesspoints. 
> "iwlist wlan0 scan" just says:
> wlan0	no scan results
> 
> It doesn't work with winXP, too.
> 
> So it seems to be a hardware related problem.
> 
> Has anyone an idea what could be wrong? (e.g. firmware, special tricks, 
> BIOS-tweaking etc?)
> 
> The card is an modem-802.11b combo-card from Actiontec Electronics. 
> Actually I couldn't find the adapter at www.actiontec.com, but I found 
> this site at IBM, which talks about the same card I think.
> 
> http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40236
> 
> 
> This is as what what the card shows up:
> 
> # lspci -v
> 0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan 
> chipset (rev 01)
> 	Subsystem: Actiontec Electronics Inc: Unknown device 0406
> 	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
> 	Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
> 	Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
> 
> Feel free to ask for more information, please.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Jan