Re: Wireless Access on Thinkpad T23
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 09:52, Tony Rein 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
>
>
I forgot to mention - with this driver, my network interface shows up as
"wlan0" instead of "eth0." I don't know if this would also be the case
with the PCI card, but if so, it explains why you can't find eth0.
Tony
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