[ltp] T60p - No Device Found for ipw3945 WiFi card on FC5 most recent kernel

[interp01]

Thanks for the response everyone, I was finally able to resolve my WiFi
card problem.  To my shock this laptop appears to not have an Intel
IPW3945 card, but instead it has an Atheros AR5212.  Has anyone else
seen this on their T60p?  Im really shocked as several co-workers of
mine have T60p's and none of them have Atheros Wifi cards.  Anyway, I
used the madwifi drivers and created a new ath0 interface and boom it
worked.  The laptop wireless light isn't turning on but at this point I
really don't care as its working perfectly fine.

Thanks much!

Interp01

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org
[mailto:linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org] On Behalf Of Florian
Manschwetus
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:13 PM
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] T60p - No Device Found for ipw3945 WiFi card on FC5
most recent kernel

The problem is udev it loads the module but bypasses the modprobe deamon

  workaraound
Florian
(same at last check with gentoo but there was recent changes i didn't 
tested sofar)

Bertrand Servin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had some issues with loading the driver at boot time on a Debian
> Etch. The symptoms were similar to yours: the module appeared in lsmod
> but I couldn't associate with an access point. I also had a modprobe
file
> like yours (indeed it is the one provided in the installation 
> instructions of
> the driver).  Although for debian these files are located in
> /etc/modprobe.d/ directory. Maybe it is not the same for FC5.
> 
> I realized that if I did a "modprobe -r ipw9345" followed by a
> "modprobe ipw3945", the module was correctly loaded, the daemon
> started and I could connect to an access point. have you tried to do
> that ?
> 
> If this works, it is probably the same problem as I had. I found the
> workaround, for Debian, on this web page:
> http://www.atworkonline.it/~bibe/etch/index.html
> 
> What it does is add an entry in /etc/rc.d so that the driver is
> correctly loaded at boot time. These are instruction for Debian, and I
> don't know if they will work on Fedora, but a similar method should be
> possible.
> 
> You can see what I did to install this driver on this web page I
> started writing:
> http://bservin.free.fr/wikini/wakka.php?wiki=DebianThinkpadT60en
> 
> Hope this helps,