Petri Laihonen wrote:
> Mepis reminded me of my wireless problems....
> I have ThinkPad z60t, and all the necessary stuff works with mepis
> except the integrated wireless.
>
> Integrated wireless uses atheros chipset, but hardware "can not be
> found". If I stick in PCMCIA wireless, with same atheros chipset, the
> network card can be found, but I lose the ability to browse the web via
> eth0 and wireless would not work. Who knows why that happens..... I yank
> the PCMCIA card out and browsing continues. If the PCMCIA card is
> inserted when booting up, then it works.
>
> My mepis forum post about the problem here http://www.mepis.org/node/9192
>
> Any additional pointers are appreciated.
>
> BTW. I did try ndiswrapper route as well, but no luck. (dunno if I did
> it right though.....)
>
> Petri
>
>
> Will Hill wrote:
>
>> If Mepis won't do it, I'd rip the thing out and use a PC card that does
>> work.
>> Crappy hardware is just not worth the time.
>>
>> Mepis managed to work the last Dell I played with, but I got rid of it
>> because
>> the screen acted funny the second time I actually carried it around. Other
>> students have had this screen problem too. You don't want to know what
>> kinds
>> of problems my professor has with his older Dell, blah.
>>
>> I'm not sure I like subcards and mini PCI. While the convenience is great,
>> my
>> T23 has not been as reliable as any previous thinkpad. I'm on my fourth one
>> now since Christmas. The first one worked for about a month. The second
>> and
>> third one had problems overnight and flaked daily. Other factors might be
>> at
>> work, but I finally understand why some people think of them as Stinkpads.
>>
>> On that note, the people at Computer Exchange deserve some praise. While
>> the
>> laptop has sucked, the service has been very good. They have a pile of them
>> and just let me swap out the hard drive when I explained that power
>> management did not work or showed them a black no post screen. The one I'm
>> on has been up for a week now. If it starts flaking out every day before
>> the
>> end of my 90 days, I'm sure they will give me my money back without
>> question.
>> I ask a lot from my laptop and I'm glad the people at Computer Exchange
>> understand and support that.
>>
>> One day, I'll make a little slide show of the two boxes I've made to move
>> around my laptops. For the 600, I used a pizza box, blue foam insulation,
>> batting, bubble wrap and duct tape. That worked well for a year an a half
>> and the 600 still works like a champ. When the T23 gave me problems, I
>> improved the design to eliminate flex by using masonite and I glued it all
>> together with silicone caulking. Now only the edge is held in place and
>> there's a quarter inch airgap top and bottom.
>>
>> On Thursday 09 March 2006 09:41 pm, Mathew Branyon wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Shortening the story a bit, I have the dell wireless 1370, which uses
>>> the broadcom 4318 chipset. Ndiswrapper isn't working, and neither are
>>> the bcm43xx drivers (they are still experimental btw).
>>>
>>>
>>>
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What does #lspci tell you? I know that on a fresh install, my card isnt
properly detected, but i run the script called update-pciids as root,
and it finds it no problem. maybe this would work for yoU?
