[Tfug] Re: T30

Harry McGregor micros at osef.org
Wed Dec 31 09:09:21 MST 2003


On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 08:35, David Spitzer wrote:
> How do you load the prism 2.5 driver?

modprobe prism2 should be enough,

Can you give the output of "uname -a" and "lsmod"

I don't know the RedHat(ism) ways, but I have worked with tons of
wireless stuff under Debian.

			Harry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Mathis [mailto:chris at campus.azintl.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 8:07 PM
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: RE: [Tfug] Re: T30
> 
> 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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