Re: Wireless Access on Thinkpad T23
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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