thinkpad wireless and linux (suse 11.4) not working on T410s

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thinkpad wireless and linux (suse 11.4) not working on T410s

#1 Post by tom121 » Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:09 pm

hi

I got a T410s model that does not have one of the intel wireless cards (5300, 6300,), but instead the thinkpad brand wireless a/b/g/n? card, and it seems it does not work.

does anyone have experience getting this wireless card to work under one of the newer linux kernels, or distros, particularly suse 11.4, or 11.3?

or do I need to order a intel replacement from lenovo?

thanks

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Re: thinkpad wireless and linux (suse 11.4) not working on T410s

#2 Post by comps » Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:24 am

Post your "lspci" output.

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Re: thinkpad wireless and linux (suse 11.4) not working on T410s

#3 Post by harrigan » Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:04 pm

ThinkWiki has some information on using your card (but nothing specific to Suse):

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_ ... Adapter_II

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Re: thinkpad wireless and linux (suse 11.4) not working on T410s

#4 Post by ThinkRob » Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:32 pm

I'd recommend you get an Intel card.

The RealTek cards are junk. They're junk under Windows, and they're *very* buggy junk under everything else. It's not even a question of community drivers being problematic -- RealTek's own drivers suck mightily.

Intel's cards are relatively cheap, and they work very well under Linux and Windows.
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