Re: t41 wireless

["Mick Timony-3" <user=1504@nabble.blu.org>]

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 13:17 -0400, dan moylan wrote: 
> i've so far been unable to get the built-in wireless card to 
> work on my new (used) ibm t41, running ubuntu gutsy.  the 
> built in wired eth0 works fine. 
> 
> lshw -C network shows the wireless card as being wifi0 using 
> driver ath-pci.  lsmod shows ath-pci is installed. 
> 
> though lshw claims that wifi0 is the wireless device, 
> iwconfig says it isn't. 
> 
> iwlist wifi0 scan gives an error, whereas iwlist ath0 scan 
> shows all the neighborhood nodes. 
> 
> so i configured ath0 as follows: 
> 
>   iwconfig ath0 essid moylan-net key s:(passwd) ap 00:09:5B:23:8A:26 
>   ifconfig ath0 192.168.0.6 broadcast 192.168.0.255 up 
>   route add default gw 192.168.0.1