[ltp] Which wireless miniPCI ( madwifi problems)

[Clark Williams]

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Leon Brokken wrote:
> Thanks for the replies.
>
> I'll most probably order the ipw2915.
>
> Cheers, Leon.
>
>
> Bert Haskins wrote:
>> I am also having problems with madwifi (atheros card).
>> This was fine under FC3 and FC4 but using FC5 it is flacky.
>> Sometimes I can't get it to startup without rebooting and retrying
>> several times
>> and when it does start it will die after runing ( well ) for a period of
>> from one to as much as 30 minutes.
>> Then I do a ifdown ath0 and then a ifup ath0 the machine will totally
>> lock up.

I put an ipw2200 in my T41 and successfully used the NVRAM hack to
disable the whitelist check. That worked until I had to have the
system-board replaced and told the IBM tech to make sure I had the
latest BIOS.  The only downside to the NVRAM hack is if for some
reason your NVRAM gets mangled (mine did once), you'll have to
disassemble, pull the card, reassemble, reboot, run the nvram program,
then disassemble, install card, etc.

So if you can get a card that's supported by your BIOS I highly
recommend it :).

Clark
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