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vis

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2007-02-25

Posts: 81

Lenovo ThinkPad R61 (new)

I've bought a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad R61 and just converted to Arch. There are a couple of issues though.

The first one is the wireless. The hardware is "Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)". Arch recognized it and loads the driver iwl4965. The problem is, it won't scan the frequecies. "iwconfig wlan0 essid MYESSID ; ifconfig wlan0 up" is not enough. Once, just once, it got connected as I gave the frequency "iwconfig wlan0 essid MYESSID freq 2.462G". But can't repeat that.

Now all the time iwconfig gives me 'IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"MYESSID" Mode:Manages Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated'. Anything missing?

vis

Member

From: Switzerland

Registered: 2007-02-25

Posts: 81

Re: Lenovo ThinkPad R61 (new)

Some additional information:

The following sequence connects the wireless LAN:

# ifconfig wlan0 up
# iwlist wlan0 scanning essid MYESSID
# iwconfig wlan0 essid MYESSID
# dhcpcd wlan0

The question is, why iwlist is necessary?

vis

Member

From: Switzerland

Registered: 2007-02-25

Posts: 81

Re: Lenovo ThinkPad R61 (new)

The installation notes will appear here http://www.ratnaweera.net/?p=8

It is "work in progress". If anybody needs more information, post your question in this thread.

quarK

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From: Karlsruhe, Germany

Registered: 2008-02-22

Posts: 39

Re: Lenovo ThinkPad R61 (new)

Hi vis!

Did you get the cpu-scaling to work satisfactory? And if yes: How did you do it?

On my R61 the scaling won't go higher than 1.2GHz (while 2.2GHz would be available). See this thread on the cpu-scaling problem.

I can't give you any advice on your particular wireless-problem, but I use wicd as a network-manager and I must say I have never seen a network-manager I liked better. Works flawlessly and exactly the way I want it to.

cheers,
quarK

jayanath

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Registered: 2008-08-16

Posts: 30

Re: Lenovo ThinkPad R61 (new)

Vis,
As mentioned by quarK, wicd would be a better choice over the Network Manager. Im also using it on my Lenovo R61.
With wicd you can easily configure your connections once you bring up your wireless interface using ifconfig wla0 up.

The iwlist would not do anything but give you more detailed information about the available access points.
So, I guess you dont have to do a iwlist everytime to make a connection.

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Cheers,
Jayanath

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