[ltp] ibm x30 internal wireless

Bert Haskins linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 01 May 2005 16:52:36 -0400


What does "cardctl ident" say?
What does "lspci" say?

Michael Moyle wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am wondering if any  on has gotten this chipset to work on the x30:
>
>Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev
>01)
>
>I have found a few sites that claim to have the wlan-ng driver working,
>but it did not properly detect the controller when I tried it. Anyhow,
>if anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.
>Maybe I was not doing something right after installing wlan-ng. 
>
>For example, the module prism2_pci is loaded, but this is what I get
>from ifconfig -a :
>
>wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
>          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>          Interrupt:11 Memory:d807a000-d807b000
>
>There is no MAC address. And I was unable to get kismet to work with
>this. Will another program work with it in this state?
>
>cheers,
>Michael
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