Difference between revisions of "ThinkPad 11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Mini Express Adapter"

Revision as of 18:38, 24 January 2007

This is a WiFi Adapter that is installed in a Mini-PCI Express slot

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There's no support by Madwifi yet (as of Jan 25, 2007). This card is tracked by madwifi ticket #1001.

In the meantime, get the windows driver from Lenovo's support site and use a recent version of ndiswrapper (>= 1.29). I've compiled a Howto for this card.

Some ThinkPads have a hardware switch that must be in the on position for the radio to work, regardless of driver state:

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 === Linux WiFi driver ===
-There's no support by [[Madwifi]] yet (as of Dec 06, 2006). This card is tracked by [http://madwifi.org/ticket/1001 madwifi ticket #1001].
+There's no support by [[Madwifi]] yet (as of Jan 25, 2007). This card is tracked by [http://madwifi.org/ticket/1001 madwifi ticket #1001].
-In the meantime, get the windows driver from Lenovo's support site and use a recent version of ndiswrapper. I've compiled a [[How_to_install_ndiswrapper_for_the_ThinkPad_11a/b/g/n_Wireless_LAN_Mini_Express_Adapter | Howto]] for this card.
+In the meantime, get the [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-66449 windows driver] from Lenovo's support site and use a recent version of [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93482&package_id=99148 ndiswrapper (>= 1.29)]. I've compiled a [[How_to_install_ndiswrapper_for_the_ThinkPad_11a/b/g/n_Wireless_LAN_Mini_Express_Adapter | Howto]] for this card.
 === Hardware switch ===