Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:28:40 -0800 | | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.x, ThinkPad T23 and HW?! |
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> I just recieved an new laptop, an IBM ThinkPad T23 and it seems I cannot > run the os of my choice on it.. Well almost not.. ;-) The machine is an > PIII Mobile - 1133Mhz with built in ethernet, Bluetooth, modem and > Wireless adapters. Namly Intel PRO/100 VE, IBM BlueTooth USB/UltraPort > thingy, Lucent Softmodem AMR and IBM High Rate Wireless LAN MiniPCI > "combo" card. The strange thing is, almost none of these come up as > "known" devices from /proc/pci or lspci. I also noticed that the IBM > Wireless adapter, which is actually a prism2 (?) card, are mysteriously > detected as an device created by "Harris Semiconductor" and it won't even > try to let me access the card. I think I've tried every driver in the > Kernel 2.4.18 now. Altho the kernel does state that the card in question > is supported, it does seem that either the pci/device-id has changed (or > something) so the driver doesn't notice any cards??? The hermes modules > loads but no interfaces become available.
The tales of my brother's intrepid exploits with the T23 are at: http://www.alex.org.uk/T23/index.html - I think there are instructions there on how to beat the wireless into submission (and other things) there.
Martin.
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