I found out that in June of last year, lenovo switched from using atheros to a realtek card in the non-intel wlan option.
Just for information. Realtek also provides Linux drivers with binary firmware. Link: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=48 &PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true#2302 Firmware license quote (Nothing new, still the same old corporate song.): Copyright (c) 2009, Realtek Semiconductor Corporation All rights reserved. Redistribution. Redistribution and use in binary form, without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * Redistributions must reproduce the above copyright notice and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * Neither the name of Realtek Semiconductor Corporation nor the names of its suppliers may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. * No reverse engineering, decompilation, or disassembly of this software is permitted. Limited patent license. Realtek Semiconductor Corporation grants a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license under patents it now or hereafter owns or controls to make, have made, use, import, offer to sell and sell ("Utilize") this software, but solely to the extent that any such patent is necessary to Utilize the software alone, or in combination with an operating system licensed under an approved Open Source license as listed by the Open Source Initiative at http://opensource.org/licenses. The patent license shall not apply to any other combinations which include this software. No hardware per se is licensed hereunder. DISCLAIMER. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 2010/6/30 Tomas Vavrys <[email protected]> > > Hello, > > I bought new Thinkpad SL510 yesterday and I want to share my experiences > with you. > > First problem was with i386 -current instalation, you can read full > description here > > http://www.pubbs.net/201005/openbsd/54814-may-26-current-on-lenovo-sl410-lapt op.html > > So I used AMD64 -current. Everything seems to be working correctly > except ACPI and Wifi (Unfortunately, wrong technical description is > common thing these days. That's why I have Realtek wifi instead of Intel > wifi.) > > Great quote from Undeadly comment: "ACPI really should die, and everyone > involved in its creation should be hunted down and tortured for the rest > of eternity, what a total clusterfuck it is." > > Here is my dmesg, acpidump and lspci -vv from Ubuntu livecd. > > http://devio.us/~cleancode/dmesg.txt > > http://devio.us/~cleancode/acpidump.txt > http://devio.us/~cleancode/acpidump_SL510.tar > > http://devio.us/~cleancode/ubuntu_lspcivv.txt > > - > Tomas Vavrys
