[ltp] Wireless with T60p and Fedora 7

[Greg Sieranski]

Mike Kershaw wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:19:43AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
>> Greg Sieranski(greg.sieranski@quoininc.com) is reported to have said:
>>> I have a  Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5418 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless PCI 
>>> Express Adapter (rev 01) on my Thinkpad T60p running Fedora 7. I have been 
>>> unable to get the wireless up and running. I have tried the madwifi driver 
>>> with minimal success and most attempts ending with the driver causing a 
>>> Kernal error. Has anyone been able to get wireless working under F7 with 
>>> the AR5418 card?
>>>
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> Have you checked the madwife Compatability page to see if it is listed
>> as working with Linux?
> 
> The atheros ABGN stuff has questionable support to the best of my
> knowledge - in some cases it mostly works, in others it doesn't.  I
> don't believe it's officially supported by any linux drivers currently,
> but your best bet would be very recent madwifi-ng.  As far as I know the
> ath5k drivers haven't begun to target the newer chipsets.
> 
> Depending on your budget, the intel 4965 abgn card works quite well with
> the iwlwifi drivers, it may be a much shorter route to just get one of
> those and replace the atheros.
> 
> -m
> 
Thanks,  I think I am going to look around and see if I can find a good 
deal on the intel 4965 card. I have tried each new release of the 
madwifi drivers for the past two months with no success. It appears the 
only reliable solution for the time being is to just switch out the card.

Thanks,
GS