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
