[ltp] ibm x30 internal wireless

Michael Gaber linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 02 May 2005 09:38:55 +0200


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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
> 
> 
> 

perhaps you'd like to try www.prism54.org
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