Repost: DHCP failing with WiFi after 6.0 upgrade

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Fri Dec 2 18:10:25 GMT 2005


> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 10:03:06 -0800
> From: Andrew Elmore <aelmore at interwoven.com>
> 
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:54:59AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > And, it my ThinkPad would recognize an ath card, I'd try to do just
> > that. IBM restricts you to the mini-PCI cards that it sells. (Grr!)
> 
> FWIW, I replaced the iwi (Intel 2200) in my Thinkpad T42p with an IBM
> branded Atheros card from Netgate, which works fine in my laptop.
> 
> http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=26_34&products_id=219&osCsid=bbc37ce3707fc6a08ba3914eeb3f540f

But my T30 is too old to recognize the iwi card, or the new Athros based
Cisco card. :-(

I guess I should make sure that no new BIOS has been released for the
T30, though.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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