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I have been struggling for days with the wireless card on my new IBM Lenovo Thinkpad R61e Type 7650-84U.
The first realization was that the lspci information is wrong. It comes up as an Atheros 5006EG. In fact, it seems to be an Atheros 5007EG card. This is an issue that has been noted, written about, and a fix is coming. Within a few weeks or months, this card may/should work with a normal madwifi installation.
The second is that there are a lot of stopgap fixes out there.
See this link for an example:
http://madwifi.org/ticket/1679
Basically, what I ended up doing was following the Arch wiki wireless install guide and this thread:
http://madwifi.org/ticket/1192
I compiled and installed the tarball at the above page mostly using these directions:
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo
A few hiccups (mostly with my router) later, and it was working fine. I am running a 64 bit Arch install and using knetworkmanager to handle the connection.
Good luck, and I hope you get it working faster than I did.
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You should have posted about it earlier, I did an R61e months ago with that card and my Acer 3680 that I have had for a year has the same card. The Acer took me a week because there wasn't any information at all about it out yet, I had to figure out the misidentification problem on my own. I have tried the madwifi patches before, but ndiswrapper works better for me.
Last edited by elliott (2008-06-17 12:53:34)
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Ndiswrapper provides better powermanagement IMHO. With madwifi, the area under the Wifi card is noticeably hotter then with ndiswrapper.
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I did try ndiswrapper, but I couldn't get it to work. It might have to do with the fact that I am running a 64 bit install and (unbelievable as it might sound), didn't realize it at the time.
Do you recall what driver you used to get it to work with ndiswrapper on the Thinkpad 61e?
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I always get them from here:
http://www.atheros.cz/
There are a couple different versions of each to try. The R61e I did was a Celeron though, so it is 32bit, along with my Acer 3680.
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For the latest Hal to make this card work, try here:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17392
I haven't tried it yet, but this should be the easiest way to get this card to work until this HAL update hits the regular repositories.
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For the latest Hal to make this card work, try here:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17392I haven't tried it yet, but this should be the easiest way to get this card to work until this HAL update hits the regular repositories.
I switched to that today, I was playing with powertop and I found that ndiswapper was causing a lot of of kernel wakeups. I found that Madwifi causes significantly less wakeups. Though I do still have the same problem I did when I first used a Madwifi build patched for this card, no wifi indicator light, switch works this time though. The card doesn't seem to run any hotter, like Megamixman experienced. I'm happy with it for now, but I hope they get the light working soon.
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