Re: IBM T30?

"Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 17:16, Shane Hickey wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 15:04, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 16:13, Shane Hickey wrote:
> > > 	I just got a new one of these babies and I have 4.7-release installed
> > > on it now.  Things are going pretty smootly, except for the fact that
> > > FreeBSD doesn't appear to see the built-in wireless card (Which I
> > > believe is a Cisco Aironet card).  I happened to have another Aironet
> > 
> > The built-in wireless works fine --- but it uses the "wi" driver, not
> > "an".  The driver should identify it as an Intersil Prism2 chipset.
> 
> Hmm... I have the wi device in my kernel config.  Under XP, the onboard
> device looks exactly like my Aironet 350 (it even uses the ACU
> utility).  A pciconf -l -v shows the following.

wi0@pci2:2:0:   class=0x028000 card=0x25138086 chip=0x31731260 rev=0x01
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intersil Americas Inc (Was: Harris Semiconductor)'
    device   = 'PRISM 2.5 802.1b 11Mbps Wireless Controller'
    class    = network

So apparently IBM uses different cards in different T30 models. 
Figures.  Mine (2366-B1U) worked out of the box as wi.

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brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] [email protected]
system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] [email protected]
electrical and computer engineering                              KF8NH
carnegie mellon university  [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls]


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