On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 11:39 -0400, Thomas, Dave wrote: > 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.
Welcome! > </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? The card works perfectly with network manager almost everywhere I go, the only time I run into trouble is when there are a lot of people sharing the same AP, then the connection drops every few minutes. I'm using Linux Mint 10 (an Ubuntu derivative), I've tried different distros, different combinations of kernels and wireless drivers with limited success. nick _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
