[ltp] ibm x30 internal wireless

Michael Moyle linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 02 May 2005 11:19:21 +0900


lspci: 
0000:01:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan
chipset (rev 01)

It is not a PCMCIA card so I did not run cardctl on it. It is an
internal PCI. 

best regards,
Michael




On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 16:52 -0400, Bert Haskins wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
>