[ltp] Re: Trouble with Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b on R40 -- Try 2!

Björn Lindström linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:54:12 +0100


"Donald B. Altman" <dona@SingularTech.com>:

>> That is, the MAC of the card gets replaced by <null>
>
> This is a WAG based upon a weird glitch I had on my A21p.  In that
> case, my Ethernet card driver partially loaded but ended up failing.
> The NULL MAC address was one of the symptoms.
>
> In that case, it was due to a faulty ACPI implementation in the
> chipset.  Booting with "acpi=off" was the workaround that got
> networking going.

That makes no difference here. If you've got this working, maybe you
could describe the rest of your config?