Ibm T41 Wifi Connection And 3d Support Helo

I've just installed openSuSe 10.3 (KDE) on an IBM T41 laptop I have. I remember seeing the listing for hardware support showing that wifi was supported. I did the install while connected via wired connection, but am having trouble with the wifi. I'm still pretty new to Linux having tried a few other distros (Ubuntu, Fedora) and am not sure if I'm missing configuration somewhere.

I've tried searching through the forums but haven't come up with anything I can use. Didn't see anything in the documentations either, I may be missing something so if anyone knows or remembers a link I can take a look at, I'd greatly appreciate the help.

Thanks all.


*Edit: Found a solution for the 3d support.

if this is on-board wifi,post the output of

/sbin/lspci -v from a console, then we can check to ensure you have the correct drivers

Andy

if this is on-board wifi,post the output of

/sbin/lspci -v from a console, then we can check to ensure you have the correct drivers

Andy
[/b]

Thanks DeltaFlyer,


Here's the output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: IBM Thinkpad T41
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Capabilities: [e4] Vendor Specific Information
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 96
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: c0100000-c01fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e0000000-e7ffffff

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1800 [size=32]

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Debug port

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=08, sec-latency=168
I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00008fff
Memory behind bridge: c0200000-cfffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e8000000-efffffff

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 1860 [size=16]
Memory at 88000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad T41
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64]
Memory at c0000c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at c0000800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
Subsystem: IBM Thinkpad T41
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 2400 [size=256]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 0530
Flags: bus master, stepping, fast Back2Back, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at b0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: e8000000-ebfff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: c4000000-c7fff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
Memory at b1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=07, subordinate=07, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: ec000000-effff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: c8000000-cbfff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
Subsystem: IBM PRO/1000 MT Mobile Connection
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at c0220000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Memory at c0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at 8000 [size=64]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at c0240000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: Phillips Components Unknown device 8331
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 11
Memory at c0210000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

ok,here's your wireless device

02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: Phillips Components Unknown device 8331
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 80, IRQ 11
Memory at c0210000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 [/b]

so you need to have the madwifi repository enabled & install the madwifi driver. then configure it via YaST - network devices - network cards

Andy

Thanks, I'll give that a go. I should be all set.

Thanks, I'll give that a go. I should be all set.[/b]

Further to what deltaflyer noted,... here is the opensuse wikipage on the Atheros and the madwifi device:
http://en.opensuse.org/Atheros_madwifi

Don't forget to install both "madwifi" and "madwifi-kmp-<yourkernel>" .
And also prior to going yast to configure, send the "modprobe ath_pci" from an xterm/konsole with root permissions.

And the thinkwiki page provides good info on Linux and IBM laptops:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T41

where that link leads you here:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/IBM_11a/b/g_...ini_PCI_Adapter
... with a note that the madwifi should work with this model (T41) IBM laptop.

Thank you both. I'll be following the Wiki and keeping those handy.