Thnkpad T42 wireless

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> My T41 works pretty reliably with the latest kernel, NM, wpa_supplicant, and 
> the 1.1.2 ipw2200 driver described in fc2-ipw2200 article above, except I 
> occasionally need to restart NM after a resume.  (I'm not using WPA, though.)

Actually, I have some packages that are still in updates-testing, 
in particular NetworkManager-0.6.2-1.fc5 and friends.

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> The key to getting it set up initially was to get the firmware RPM from 
> Livna, then delete all network devices in system-config-network, then reboot. 
> Then you can recreate the wireless interface as wireless.  (If you run the 
> 1.1.2 driver, you need firmware version 3.0.  I have an RPM that contains it 
> that I can send on request.)
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> The other important thing is to get initscripts-8.31.2-1, which is currently 
> in updates-testing.  That fixes the problem with interfaces swapping names 
> between boots.
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 		Matthew Saltzman

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