[ltp] T60p Wifi and Display

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Phil Shotton <phil@stairbridge.org.uk> wrote:
> After finally getting my T60 working to my satisfaction I've been
>  upgraded(!) to a T60p, and I now have two problems after installing
>  Ubuntu Gutsy:
>
>  1) Atheros AR5418 wifi card. Not recognized.  I've tried using the
>  latest madwifi for this but with no success. The ndiswrapper works fine,
>  but it's not getting loaded at boot. The ndiswrapper config placed an
>  ndiswrapper file in /etc/modprobe.d - containing 1 line:
>     alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
>  but the driver still doesn't get loaded. If I "modprobe ndiswrapper"
>  everything works fine (in fact I get better wifi performance than with T60).
>
>  2) Display. This T60p has an ATI Mobility FireGL V5250. I need dual-head
>  support and the only way I could get that on the T60 (ATI X1400) was to
>  use the ATI proprietary drivers. I'm using the latest 8.452.1 version,
>  and it all works OK except:

That chips works fine in both radeon (6.8.0 and newer) and radeonhd.
No 3D yet however.

Alex