[ltp] Re: 802.11g cards that work with R40 2682

[Noah Dain]

On 2/12/06, Stefan Schmidt <stefan@sostec.de> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 10:46, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have a general recommendation for a mini-PCI card that
> > > > handles 802.11b and 802.11g, then?
> > > >
> > > IPW3945 is also A, supported a lot of stuff and will soon support mas=
ter
> > sorry! IPW2915. The IPW3945 is a new Mini-Card
>
> I have changed the Atheros card in my T40p with a cheap IPW2915 from
> ebay. Works great after allowing my notebook to use all wifi cards. :)
>
> I used the code from Vojtech Pavlik to change the necessary bit.
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0406.1/1105.html
>
> regards
> Stefan Schmidt
>
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been using an atheros 5212 a/b/g here for about a year now in my R40.=20
the madwifi project is pretty good, and some distros are including it
now.  Lots of movement on the devel branch (madwifi-ng), and lots of
promise shown for a set of diverse capabilities too.

--
Noah Dain
"Single failures can occur for a variety of reasons that have nothing
to do with a hardware defect, such as cosmic radiation ..." - IBM
Thinkpad R40 maintenance manual, page 25