[ltp] Wireless with T60p and Fedora 7

[Greg Sieranski]

Greg Sieranski wrote:
> 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
I am looking at getting the : 
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=41N3008&current-category-id=6CD9186A42C444B58C8A7767D849A728

Has anyone been successful at getting this card to run under F7 on a T60P?