Lorenzo Sandini

Hello,

I am amazed Ubuntu's WLAN capabilities. It detects most of my WLAN
adapters and needs no messy driver installation.

I decided to put it on a Thinkpad T43p, in which the WLAN card is an
intel 2200B/G, detected and listed as eth1. However the radio seems to
be off, and I could not find a way to activate it. In Windows, the key
combination Fn+F5 does the trick, but in Ubuntu it just activates the
Bluetooth radio.

I did a bit of reading, and installed the firmware fw3.0 as per
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ instructions, but to no avail.

I put a Cardbus D-link G650 in there and it worked right away with WPA,
but I'd like to use the built-in WLAN adapter. Any suggestion ?

TIA, Lorenzo

Hadron

Lorenzo Sandini <lorenzo.sandini@POISTA.uku.fi> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am amazed Ubuntu's WLAN capabilities. It detects most of my WLAN
> adapters and needs no messy driver installation.

Great! How many WLAN adaptors do you have? And what is "most"?

>
> I decided to put it on a Thinkpad T43p, in which the WLAN card is an
> intel 2200B/G, detected and listed as eth1. However the radio seems to

This is the wireless pro?

> be off, and I could not find a way to activate it. In Windows, the key
> combination Fn+F5 does the trick, but in Ubuntu it just activates the
> Bluetooth radio.
>
> I did a bit of reading, and installed the firmware fw3.0 as per
> http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ instructions, but to no avail.
>
> I put a Cardbus D-link G650 in there and it worked right away with
> WPA, but I'd like to use the built-in WLAN adapter. Any suggestion ?


I put a Wireless pro 2200b7g minipci in my x30 and it (after rewriting
the bios to accept a non standard card ) worked without installing
anything special with Ubuntu Breezy. But that is an old machine. Yours
should surely work.

Does it work with Windows?

What do lspci and the like report?

There are many great resources out there and people who have
successfully installed Ubuntu on the T43 in web land

e.g

http://www.cse.ust.hk/~josephwu/Favo...inkpadT43.html

>
> TIA, Lorenzo

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Baldylocks-Ubuntu

On Monday 26 Nov 2007 13:14 Lorenzo Sandini licked a pencil and jotted:

> Hello,
>
> I am amazed Ubuntu's WLAN capabilities. It detects most of my WLAN
> adapters and needs no messy driver installation.
>
> I decided to put it on a Thinkpad T43p, in which the WLAN card is an
> intel 2200B/G, detected and listed as eth1. However the radio seems to
> be off, and I could not find a way to activate it. In Windows, the key
> combination Fn+F5 does the trick, but in Ubuntu it just activates the
> Bluetooth radio.
>
> I did a bit of reading, and installed the firmware fw3.0 as per
> http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ instructions, but to no avail.
>
> I put a Cardbus D-link G650 in there and it worked right away with WPA,
> but I'd like to use the built-in WLAN adapter. Any suggestion ?
>
> TIA, Lorenzo

You got a DWL G650 to work?! I could never get mine to work with anything
later than 6.10 - they dropped support for its TI chipset in 7.04 I read.

Have a look in Synaptic for tools to get your fn keys to work. I recently
installed Gutsy on a Dell C series and came across one for that while
looking for something else. The fn key shortcuts work in a more friendly
way than they do in XP IMO.

David
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Lorenzo Sandini

Hadron wrote:
> Lorenzo Sandini <lorenzo.sandini@POISTA.uku.fi> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am amazed Ubuntu's WLAN capabilities. It detects most of my WLAN
>> adapters and needs no messy driver installation.
>
> Great! How many WLAN adaptors do you have? And what is "most"?

I have as many adaptors as I have computers in my LAN, and in one
computer there are 2 WLAN adaptors, one of which is unused, built-in on
the mobo.

Most is all of them, except the 2200B/G in the thinkpad.
>
>> I decided to put it on a Thinkpad T43p, in which the WLAN card is an
>> intel 2200B/G, detected and listed as eth1. However the radio seems to
>
> This is the wireless pro?

.... See the lspci output under here.

>> be off, and I could not find a way to activate it. In Windows, the key
>> combination Fn+F5 does the trick, but in Ubuntu it just activates the
>> Bluetooth radio.
>>
>> I did a bit of reading, and installed the firmware fw3.0 as per
>> http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ instructions, but to no avail.
>>
>> I put a Cardbus D-link G650 in there and it worked right away with
>> WPA, but I'd like to use the built-in WLAN adapter. Any suggestion ?
>
>
> I put a Wireless pro 2200b7g minipci in my x30 and it (after rewriting
> the bios to accept a non standard card ) worked without installing
> anything special with Ubuntu Breezy. But that is an old machine. Yours
> should surely work.
>
> Does it work with Windows?

Works fine in windows.
>
> What do lspci and the like report?

0000:03:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG
(rev 05)

>
> There are many great resources out there and people who have
> successfully installed Ubuntu on the T43 in web land
>
> e.g
>
> http://www.cse.ust.hk/~josephwu/Favo...inkpadT43.html

Thanks for the link. I think the problem isn't that much the WLAN
controller itself, it's how to power it up, it seems to be inactivated.
Oh well, a cardbus wlan adapter works fine in the laptop for now, I'll
do more troubleshooting during the christmas holidays.

Lorenzo

Lorenzo Sandini

Baldylocks-Ubuntu wrote:

<snip>
>>
>> I put a Cardbus D-link G650 in there and it worked right away with WPA,
>> but I'd like to use the built-in WLAN adapter. Any suggestion ?
>>
>> TIA, Lorenzo
>
> You got a DWL G650 to work?! I could never get mine to work with anything
> later than 6.10 - they dropped support for its TI chipset in 7.04 I read.

You might have a different revision of the card. Mine has an Atheros
chipset.

http://support.dlink.com/products/re...tid=DWL%2DG650

revision A1 uses PRISM, B1-B5 is Atheros, C1 is also Atheros, and
DWL-G650+ uses the TI chipset.

> Have a look in Synaptic for tools to get your fn keys to work. I recently
> installed Gutsy on a Dell C series and came across one for that while
> looking for something else. The fn key shortcuts work in a more friendly
> way than they do in XP IMO.
>
> David

Thanks for the hint, I'll look into that.

Lorenzo

Lorenzo Sandini

I think I have a bit of the answer here: I installed Ubuntu on a USB
external HDD, and the WLAN adapter is detetcted but not functional. When
starting from the LiveCD, the 2200BG adapter works fine, as do the
special keys on the Thinkpad beyboard.

I guess I have to install Ubuntu on my primary HDD next to Windows...

Lorenzo




Lorenzo Sandini wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am amazed Ubuntu's WLAN capabilities. It detects most of my WLAN
> adapters and needs no messy driver installation.
>
> I decided to put it on a Thinkpad T43p, in which the WLAN card is an
> intel 2200B/G, detected and listed as eth1. However the radio seems to
> be off, and I could not find a way to activate it. In Windows, the key
> combination Fn+F5 does the trick, but in Ubuntu it just activates the
> Bluetooth radio.
>
> I did a bit of reading, and installed the firmware fw3.0 as per
> http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ instructions, but to no avail.
>
> I put a Cardbus D-link G650 in there and it worked right away with WPA,
> but I'd like to use the built-in WLAN adapter. Any suggestion ?
>
> TIA, Lorenzo