[ltp] Thinkpad T60p Wireless card Advice

[Florian Reitmeir]

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Tim Prince wrote:

> John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >Glenn <gsaberton@foomagic.org> dijo:
> >>If the current atheros card is an n card, then I guess you should go for 
> >>the 4965, as you should already have the three antenna in the computer.
> >Under no circumstances get the 4965. My T61 came with the 4965 and it
> >hangs up randomly. It does appear to work OK on 32-bit Linux, but why
> >buy something with problems? Google on 4965 and you will see what I
> >mean about the problems.
> >  
> Regrettably, I concur that the 4965AGN has required me to switch back to 
> 32-bit Windows so far in the 4 days I have had it.  There is (partial) 
> support only in the latest FC8, ubuntu 7.1, or SuSE 10.3 distros, the 
> latter being the only one I have tried from this group.  With kernels 
> prior to 2.6.18, it won't even show up in lspci.  On my home router, I 
> can get it to associate by using iwconfig, but I don't get any data 
> across.  I had more success at a customer's site, with non-passworded 
> wireless.  I'm not inclined to try ndiswrapper in view of past 
> experience and lack of positive recommendations.  I'm not even certain 
> there is adequate support for 64-bit Windows.

the 4965AGN and the 3945 drivers will be included into 2.6.24, and for using
a 2.6.23.12 with the wireless drivers compiled myself they do work nicely.

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Florian Reitmeir