[Tfug] Re: T30

Chris Mathis chris at campus.azintl.edu
Tue Dec 30 20:06:42 MST 2003


the prism 2.5 driver should work properly for it built into the latest
kernels i think...


Chris

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 16:33, David Spitzer wrote:
> Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset rev 01
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry McGregor [mailto:micros at osef.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 4:06 PM
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Re: T30
> 
> do an "lspci" and an "lspci -v" and an "lspci -n", and report them back
> to the list.
> 
> IBM has used Cisco internal cards, Lucent Internal, Prism2/2.5 based
> internal cards, and Atheros based cards, and quite probably broadcom
> based cards.  The broadcoms are SOL, but the Atheros 802.11a/b/g can be
> made to work with very little binary glue (due to FCC regs), the others
> should work quite easily.
> 
> 			Harry
> 
> On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 15:56, Claude Rubinson wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:57:34PM -0700, David Spitzer wrote:
> > > Also has anyone got the built in wireless card to work in an IBM t30
> > > laptop
> > 
> > Short answer is that it depends on your card.  Figure out what type of
> > card you have and you'll quickly figure out if it's supported.  One
> > resource that you should be aware of is the linux-thinkpad.org mailing
> > list.
> > 
> > Claude
> > 
> > p.s. If you're stuck with a proprietary card, chatter on the list has
> > been that the NDIS wrapper does a pretty good job.
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