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Topic: Enabling wifi and ethernet support in T43p, IBM Thinkpad T43p network support

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Posted: May 08 2006,19:34

The specs on the NICs are as follows:
wifi - Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Mini-PCI Adapter
ethernet - Broadcom BCM5751M Gigabit-LAN

It appears that wifi support can be obtained by installing the "IPW2200 Driver for Linux" which can be found here - http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/

I'll play around with this a little later and see what I can do.
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Posted: May 09 2006,03:25

Damn this is irritating. I found the MyDSL extension for ipw2200 and the 2.4x kernel. Unfortunateky, it appears the system doesn't want to use it because DSL 2.3 uses a different kernel than the one that was used to compile the extension. See below.

Code Sample

root@box:~# insmod /lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200/ipw2200.o
/lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200/ipw2200.o: kernel-module version mismatch
/lib/modules/2.4.31/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200/ipw2200.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.31
while this kernel is version 2.4.26.

Is it possible to still use the module, despite this version discrepancy?

mvisconte

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Posted: May 09 2006,05:47

Quote (lagerratrobe @ May 08 2006,15:34)

DSL works like a champ on my IBM T42p. To set up wifi, all I do is:
DSL Control Panel
Click Prism2
enter "ath0" for the device
set my channel to 6 (ycmv)
enter the access point name
Click OK

DHCP client is already selected.

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Posted: May 09 2006,13:39

Which version of DSL do you use on your T42p? I'll have to look up what the "prism2" does, I didn't know it was for wifi setup.
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Posted: May 09 2006,15:12

Ok, I think I've found the winning combo for now. Forum member "multitudes" had posted an entry in the "Ideas and Suggestions" section which pertains to the kernel mismatch I encountered last night. http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....titudes

Looks like using DSL 2.1b and the ipw2200-k2.4.31.dsl is the way to go, it seems to work beautifully. I like this solution much better than using ndiswrapper, so I'm going to stick with it.

DSL-N looks pretty cool, new kernel and all, but I'm not into the Frugal installs. I still prefer an HD install of DSL for its lightning fast response, and ease of administration. I know how unpopular that is here, so I won;t say anything more on the topic.

Very glad to have found a combination that works. I *almost* was going to have to ditch DSL. Very glad I didn't have to.

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