Re: Wireless Access on Thinkpad T23
In the 2.4.17 kernel, the orinoco.c file still lists the mini-PCI as a
TODO. Give linux-wlan-ng-0.1.10 a try, some folks have reported success
with it.
-Mark
Bryan Daniels wrote:
>
> Thanks for your advice. I downloaded linux-wlan and
> will try to get it to work. I still think that I
> should be able to use the Hermes driver. In the kernel
> documentation, it says that it supports the "IBM High
> Rate Wireless Card." I am able to "modprob hermes" and
> "lsmod" to verify that hermes was loaded into the
> kernel. From there, I am still stuck. I am unable to
> figure out if "hermes" actually created a device,
> i.e., eth1, wlan0, etc. It dosen't appear so. Until,
> the device itself is created, it dosen't seem that
> using "alias eth2=hermes", or configuring
> "/etc/network/interfaces" will do any good.
>
> Is anyone actually using the built-in PCI card--NOT A
> PCMCIA CARD--on the T23. If so, how did you get it up
> and running?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Bryan
>
> --- Tony Rein <trein@umich.edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 22:54, Bryan Daniels wrote:
> > > I am running Debian 3.0 with kernel 2.4.16 on a
> > > ThinkPad T23. It has a built-in wireless
> > > capability--through a "mini-combo" PCI card. (It
> > is
> > > *not* a PCMCIA card.) The wireless network adapter
> > is
> > > a "IBM High Rate Wireless LAN MiniPCI Combo Card."
> > It
> > > is made by Actiontec Electronics, Inc--it appears
> > to
> > > have a PRISM chipset.
> > >
> > > Reading through various wireless websites and
> > > Wireless-HOWTO, I think that the driver/module for
> > > this adapter is either "Hermes" or "Orinoco".
> > > Amazingly, both are available as kernel modules. I
> > > have succesfully been able to modprobe both, but
> > that
> > > is as far as I get. I am stuck. I am not sure what
> > to
> > > do next. Looking throug dmesg, it appears that the
> > > kernel recognizes the presence of the PCI card,
> > but it
> > > does not automatically assign it to eth1 like it
> > does
> > > eth0 with the Ethernet card. Moreover, I am unable
> > to
> > > use the ifconfig or ifup commands.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions would be most helpful.
> > >
> > > Bryan Daniels
> > >
> > Bryan,
> >
> > I recently got a Thinkpad X22. I didn't have the
> > nerve to try the
> > built-in wireless, so I got one without and got a
> > Linksys PCMCIA card,
> > also with a Prism chipset. It works great using the
> > linux-wlan driver,
> > available from
> > http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/.
> >
> > Note that there are two projects there - linux-wlan
> > and linux-wlan-ng
> > ("New Generation?"). You want the "ng" one.
> >
> > It comes with a fairly good README with build
> > instructions. I recall
> > seeing instructions for building a PCI driver
> > instead of the PCMCIA one,
> > but of course I haven't tried it. Good luck.
> >
> > Tony
> >
>
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