Atheros 802.11 on Thinkpad x60s
Knoppix 5.0.1 finds the Atheros wireless chip in my Lenovo Thinkpad x60s laptop, but the madwifi driver croaks with a message something like "hardware returned unexpected value" and wireless is unusable. Here is the lspci -v for the Atheros chip:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 058a
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 66
Memory at edf00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
I find that if I build my own madwifi driver using the current top of tree madwifi-ng driver from www.madwifi.org that the driver works fine. I suppose it's something about the newer version of the chip going in the new thinkpads. Maybe newer madwifi code can be used in a future rev of knoppix?
Other than the problem with the wireless chip, knoppix 5.0.1 works great on the x60 thinkpad. I put it on a USB flash drive and it boots great.
jeff
Re: Atheros 802.11 on Thinkpad x60s
The same problem using IBM x31 laptop with the "Atheros wireless chip".
It works when using Knoppix 4.0.2, Knoppix 5.0 but not in 5.0.1. :cry.
/Madkn
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Originally Posted by jeffmock
Knoppix 5.0.1 finds the Atheros wireless chip in my Lenovo Thinkpad x60s laptop, but the madwifi driver croaks with a message something like "hardware returned unexpected value" and wireless is unusable. Here is the lspci -v for the Atheros chip:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 058a
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 66
Memory at edf00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
I find that if I build my own madwifi driver using the current top of tree madwifi-ng driver from
www.madwifi.org that the driver works fine. I suppose it's something about the newer version of the chip going in the new thinkpads. Maybe newer madwifi code can be used in a future rev of knoppix?
Other than the problem with the wireless chip, knoppix 5.0.1 works great on the x60 thinkpad. I put it on a USB flash drive and it boots great.
jeff
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
