Hey all! This is my first message as a brand new MLUG-er. I just moved back to Montreal after living in Los Angeles for more than 25 years. I've been a linux user/admin/developer since '96.
</end of off-topic proclamation> > Subject: Re: [MLUG] OT: Looking for an Atheros wireless card for a Lenovo I bought myself a T61 in 2007, which is basically the same as the T60 but with a widescreen, and I'm relatively sure it used the Intel 4965AGN which is a different chipset but should be using the same drivers as yours. My experience (hope it helps) went like so: I loaded Gentoo on it and built the latest intellinuxwireless.org source. After a month or so of tweaks and games the reasonably reliable procedure was to rmmod and modprobe the iwlwifi driver when I changed networks. Like you it dropped off occasionally but as intel improved their linux drivers occurrences became more rare. I just assumed that it was a flaky device. Then two years later I switched to Ubuntu and everything started working without fuss (with the exception of .deb packaging which never made sense to me). Sorry as I missed the beginning of the thread, but which distro are you using? Have you tried a liveCD from a different one? > > Mine has a second MiniPCIe slot, it's on the left hand side of the laptop in- > line with the audio jacks. The problem with that solution is that the antenna > wires don't reach... > > > So as for finding the right card (which I haven't tried to do: I just > > keep using the original card and bought a cheap (and better since it > > can be an AP) Atheros card to put into the other machine): > > I'd try various PC shops (the "dirtier" the better), since they may > > have a stash of second hand (recovered from old/broken laptops) wifi > cards. > > E.g. I'd first try Dan's computer (not because I like it, but it's > > next door, on St-Denis, between St-Joseph and Villeneuve). Go there > > with your machine (ready to pry open) so you can try out the cards in-situ. > > My guess is that they won't have too many "Atheros Mini-PCIe" cards to > > start with, so you won't have to try too many of them. > > > > > > Stefan > > 'the "dirtier" the better', lol > > I guess that's what I'll do, there are a bunch of those laptop recycling places > near the airport, hopefully they'll have something. > > > Today I'm going to give Andy's suggestion a shot, bye bye network-manager. > > > Thanks, > > nick > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.c a _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
