[ltp] ipw3945

[Stefan Armbruster]

Am Freitag, 8. Dezember 2006 04:37 schrieb sudhakar+thinkpad@cs.princeton.edu:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I got a new R60 with ipw3945 wireless on it. Fedora core 6.  Can someone
> help me get the wireless to work?
>
> Is there a quick way to get it to work as opposed to getting the kernel
> sources, packages and compiling and troubleshooting.
Don't know about Fedora, but with Ubuntu Edgy, ipw3945 works out of the box 
(at least on a Z61p). 

Regards,
Stefan
>
>
> Thanks!  I will try writing up about my experiences.
>
>
>
> --Sudhakar
>
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Stephen Ryan wrote:
> > On 12/7/06, Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@comcast.net> wrote:
> >> I see quite a number of web pages that claim that various Linux
> >> distributions support the UltraNav device "out of the box".  However,
> >> when I put Fedora Core 6 up on my T60p the reality was quite different.
> >>
> >> Yes, the trackpoint and the touchpad worked, however, there was no
> >> control interface for the touchpad, in particular no way to turn off
> >> "tap to select".  (There was a way to turn off "press to select" on the
> >> trackpoint, but that is different.)
> >>
> >> So, my question is how can I get full control of the UltraNav device,
> >> including tap to select on the touchpad.
> >>
> >> Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> >>
> >> PS:  I have other issues with Linux on my T60p, but that is the more
> >> annoying one right now.
> >
> > Not sure about the rest of it, but on my T40, adding
> >
> > Option          "MaxTapTime"            "0"
> >
> > to /etc/X11/xorg.conf disabled the "tap to click" feature without
> > changing anything else.  I have a section that looks like this (the
> > rest was generated by the Ubuntu installation, so don't just paste the
> > block unless you have a corresponding reference to "Synaptics
> > Touchpad" in your ServerLayout section, too).
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >       Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
> >       Driver          "synaptics"
> >       Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
> >       Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
> >       Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
> >       Option          "XAxisMapping"          "6 7"
> >       Option          "MaxTapTime"            "0"
> > EndSection
> >
> > I do hope the other issues with the T60p aren't too serious, as I
> > ordered one yesterday.
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> Sudhakar Govindavajhala	                  Department of Computer Science
>                         Princeton University
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