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Wireless on a T60 with openSUSE 11

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Note to self:
To get the wireless (AR5212) working on a T60:

Compile madwifi from source (don’t bother with the openSUSE 11 repo)
Add the following to /etc/modprobe.conf.local:

blacklist ath5k
install ath_pci /sbin/modprobe –ignore-install ath_pci; /usr/sbin/iwpriv ath0 mode 3
options ath_pci autocreate=sta
alias ath0 ath_pci

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