Wireless Driver on T61

[koolbuddy4u]

I freshly installed Fedora8 on T61 through textmode, and i can see that my network manager doesnt give me an option of Wireless. When i try the following commands i get the response as follows:

1) iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 bo wireless extensions.


2) [root@wireless ~]# /sbin/lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HBM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0429 (rev a1)
02:00.0 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Turbo Memory Controller (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)


3) [root@wireless ~]# /sbin/lsmod

Module Size Used by
nls_utf8 5825 1
rfcomm 36825 0
l2cap 25537 9 rfcomm
autofs4 20421 2
sunrpc 140765 1
nf_conntrack_ipv4 11717 2
ipt_REJECT 7617 2
iptable_filter 6465 1
ip_tables 14213 1 iptable_filter
nf_conntrack_ipv6 18769 2
xt_state 6081 4
nf_conntrack 51977 3 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,xt_state
nfnetlink 8281 3 nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_conntrack
xt_tcpudp 6977 8
ip6t_ipv6header 6209 2
ip6t_REJECT 8257 2
ip6table_filter 6337 1
ip6_tables 15109 2 ip6t_ipv6header,ip6table_filter
x_tables 14277 7 ipt_REJECT,ip_tables,xt_state,xt_tcpudp,ip6t_ipv6h eader,ip6t_REJECT,ip6_tables
cpufreq_ondemand 10317 1
acpi_cpufreq 12365 1
loop 16581 0
dm_multipath 18249 0
ipv6 245989 16 nf_conntrack_ipv6,ip6t_REJECT
snd_hda_intel 274657 3
snd_seq_dummy 6725 0
snd_seq_oss 29889 0
snd_seq_midi_event 9793 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 44849 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 10061 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 37569 0
snd_mixer_oss 16705 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 63685 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
firewire_ohci 18113 0
snd_timer 20549 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
i2c_i801 12113 0
battery 14025 0
firewire_core 36097 1 firewire_ohci
snd_page_alloc 11337 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
hci_usb 16605 2
ac 8133 0
i2c_core 21825 1 i2c_i801
crc_itu_t 6081 1 firewire_core
snd_hwdep 10309 1 snd_hda_intel
snd 43461 15 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,s nd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwd ep
bluetooth 49316 7 rfcomm,l2cap,hci_usb
button 10321 0
video 19921 0
output 6977 1 video
ath5k 85197 0
e1000 111877 0
soundcore 9633 1 snd
thinkpad_acpi 44829 0
hwmon 6469 1 thinkpad_acpi
joydev 11649 0
mac80211 131409 1 ath5k
cfg80211 10441 1 mac80211
sr_mod 17509 1
cdrom 33889 1 sr_mod
sg 31965 0
ata_piix 16709 3
dm_snapshot 17765 0
dm_zero 5825 0
dm_mirror 21569 0
dm_mod 46209 9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ahci 22597 0
libata 99633 2 ata_piix,ahci
sd_mod 27329 3
scsi_mod 119757 4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod
ext3 110665 2
jbd 52457 1 ext3
mbcache 10177 1 ext3
uhci_hcd 23633 0
ohci_hcd 21445 0
ehci_hcd 31693 0

Plz help me installing the driver for wireless, thankz in advance.

[jtang613]

Try this:
su -
yum remove iwl*-firmware ipw*-firmware
yum install madwifi
yum update
service network restart
service NetworkManager restart
chkconfig --level 35 NetworkManager on
The MadWifi drivers support your Atheros AR5212, but a forum search shows that some people, especially those with T61's have had issues getting it to work. After these updates, the card should appear as ath0.

Let us know how it goes.

[koolbuddy4u]

When i run

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions
etho no wireless extensions
wmaster0 no wireless extensions
wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID: ""
Mode: Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid cypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

The card didnt appear as ath0

[koolbuddy4u]

When i run

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions

etho no wireless extensions

wmaster0 no wireless extensions

wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID: ""
Mode: Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid cypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

The card didnt appear as ath0

Do you need any thing else?

[leigh123linux]

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