[ltp] RETRACTION: Successful WiFi on T30 under SuSE 10.2 with internal PCI RaLink RA2500 cardbus/miniPCI network card

[Glenn Hollowell]

Hi all,

I'd like to retract an earlier report that I had made regarding getting
a T30 up and running using the serialmonkey driver. Shortly after
posting, the wireless on my laptop became erratic, with the driver only
loading properly in approximately 1:15 boots. There are numerous reports
on the openSUSE wiki and on other blogs where people have wrestled with
the Ralink native driver with only partial success.

Two days ago I installed ndiswrapper on my T30 and the correct driver
from the WL54driver2.2.6.0.zip and have been very happy ever since,
enjoying normal bandwidth and wifi access at times of my choosing.

Ciao. 

Glenn


On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 10:03 -0900, Glenn Hollowell wrote: 
> I've successfully installed wifi on my Thinkpad T-30 that has an
> internal PCI RaLink RA2500 cardbus/miniPCI Network Card. I'm running an
> updated version of openSuSE 10.2 with a default kernel.
> 
> The successful install was done by,
> 1)downloading the new rt2500-1.1.0-b4 driver from
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
> 
> 2)following the instructions here:
> http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Setting_up_RT61_Wireless_Cards&redirect=no
> 
> 3)and using the following settings:
> 	+Network setup method via Traditional with ifup
> 	+Firewall Zone = Internal unprotected
> 	+Device activation on hotplug.
> 
> I had tried setting this up in December with no luck: either the RT2500
> driver has been improved, or perhaps one of my settings was maltweaked.
> 
> I am, however still getting wildly oscillating signal strengths reported
> by KWiFiManager and it indicates that no networks are found when I do a
> "scan for networks" and am getting a good signal from my router.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Glenn