IBM T400: Getting Wireless to work

[cxd]

Hi all,

I've run into some real trouble with my Thinkpad T400 and the Wireless card. Sincerely I don't have any clue about which wireless controller I have, since it was equipped by my faculty and so the only hint I have is the following

# lspci | grep Network
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 4237

It must be some sort of Intel 5100, 5150, 5300 or 5350, that much I found out while Googling around. Now the problem is that all I've ever seen about those is that up until kernel 2.6.26 they aren't supported, so I figured it would be best to just install the 2.6.27-rc3 kernel from the vanilla repository. But that didn't do much, as it broke my fglrx driver and some more, just to detect the card, but still being unable to do anything with it...
Any idea what the best way to go is, possibly without updating the kernel because it took me forever to get all the stuff working again (vmware is a pain when it comes to kernel updates...)?

[blackyzero]

I got the same result.
From dmesg, the wireless card only show as:

dmesg |grep Intel
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     U9400  @ 1.40GHz stepping 06
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     U9400  @ 1.40GHz stepping 06
usb 2-3: Product: Intel(R) WiMAX Link 5350
usb 2-3: Manufacturer: Intel(R) Corporation
agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset
e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 0.3.3.3-k6
e1000e: Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Intel Corporation.
0000:00:19.0: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64

I am running SLED 11 on thinkpad x301. The built in kernel is 2.6.27.19-5

Anyone got Intel wireless 5350 work on openSuse or SLED 11, please show us.

Thank you.

[lwfinger]

blackyzero wrote:
> I got the same result.
> From dmesg, the wireless card only show as:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> dmesg |grep Intel
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU U9400 @ 1.40GHz stepping 06
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
> CPU1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU U9400 @ 1.40GHz stepping 06
> usb 2-3: Product: Intel(R) WiMAX Link 5350
> usb 2-3: Manufacturer: Intel(R) Corporation
> agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset
> e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 0.3.3.3-k6
> e1000e: Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Intel Corporation.
> 0000:00:19.0: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
>
> --------------------
>
>
> I am running SLED 11 on thinkpad x301. The built in kernel is
> 2.6.27.19-5
>
> Anyone got Intel wireless 5350 work on openSuse or SLED 11, please show
> us.

You need to install compat-wireless. The WiMAX didn't work until quite
recently.

[blackyzero]

Originally Posted by lwfinger

You need to install compat-wireless. The WiMAX didn't work until quite
recently.

It works correctly. My Intel 5350 wireless card can work properly on OpenSuSe 11.1 and SLED 11.

But, i do not have change to test Wimax connection.