[laptop-discuss] Cannot activate wireless radio on ThinkPad X40 2386 8EU

[Jack Zhang]

After a lot of surfing on google,  I get this result --
All IBM Thinkpad that come with IBM 802.11 b/g wireless card (Athero 5212) has 
poor signal strength with  MadWifi  driver on Linux.
OpenSolaris ath driver uses the same code base as  MadWifi  (if I am wrong, pls 
point it out).  So the same problem happened with Solaris 10  on my Thinkpad 
X40.
I ordered 2 new wireless cards from amazon marketplace
one is IBM Intel 2200BG,  the other is Lenovo Intel 2915BG.  
But I will first try ndiswrapper with Windows Atheros driver.  If it does not 
work,   I'll  replace IBM card  with Intel one.
-Jack
 
 
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