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
