re: t41 wireless

["dan moylan-3" <user=1052@nabble.blu.org>]

Jim KR writes: 
> I'm not familiar with ubuntu, but with F8 I have to use 
> madwifi drivers for my atheros card. The kernel version does 
> not yet seem to address all cards. I don't remember 
> thinkpads using atheros chips, so is this an external card? 

nope, internal wireless.  lshw -C network gives: 

  *-network:1 DISABLED 
       description: Wireless interface 
       product: AR5212 802.11abg NIC 
       vendor: Atheros Communications, Inc. 
       physical id: 2 
       bus info: pci@0000:02:02.0 
       logical name: wifi0 
       version: 01 
       serial: 00:05:4e:46:3b:76 
       width: 32 bits 
       clock: 33MHz 
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless 
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath_pci ip=192.168.0.6 latency=168 maxlatency=28 mingnt=10 module=ath_pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g 

it looks as though ath_pci should do the trick.  whatever, 
fwiw at least iwlist ath0 scan ferrets out the neighborhood 
nodes. 

dan 

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