[ltp] T60p And Atheros AR5418 with ndiswrapper

[Bill Moseley]

I just did a clean Hardy installation and installed ndiswrapper
for the Atheros wireless[1].

I was using madwifi before so it took me a while to realize I needed
to flip the little switch on the front of the laptop to enable
wireless (didn't need to do that with madwifi).

So, scanning my AP I see this:

  Cell 01 - Address: 00:09:5B:B3:C7:18
            ESSID:"hanklan"
            Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
            Mode:Managed
            Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
            Quality:37/100  Signal level:-72 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
            Encryption key:on
            Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                      9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                      48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
            Extra:bcn_int=100
            Extra:atim=0
            IE: WPA Version 1
                Group Cipher : TKIP
                Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                Authentication Suites (1) : PSK

And according to dmesg[2] it seems like I should support PSK.

Yes, when I try to connect to the access point Network Manager
is only offering "LEAP" as the possible wireless security option.

Is it because the AP's WPA version is 1, and I only have WPA2PSK
listed below?

Pointers to resolve this?

Thanks,



[1] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_install_ndiswrapper_for_the_ThinkPad_11a/b/g/n_Wireless_LAN_Mini_Express_Adapter


[2] dmesg message when loading ndiswrapper:

[   91.996147] ndiswrapper version 1.52 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
[   92.014417] ndiswrapper: driver net5416 (,06/26/2007,6.0.3.94) loaded
[   92.014809] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[   92.015314] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
[   92.148238] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 21
[   92.168495] wlan0: ethernet device 00:19:7e:57:65:5d using serialized NDIS driver: net5416, version: 0x60000, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 168C:0024.5.conf
[   92.190362] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   92.201950] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
[   92.205577] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper




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Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org