intel 2100 wireless on thinkpads

Arne Schwabe arne at rfc2549.org
Wed Mar 10 17:53:04 PST 2004


David Coder <dacoder at dcoder.com> writes:

> two problems with freebsd on the thinkpad t40:
>
> 1.  there appears to be no freebsd driver in any release for the intel wireless
> lan 2100 3b mini pci adapter.
>
> 2.  the intel gigabit chip that the t40 appears to work with the em driver (in
> my frustrating experience, anyway) only in 4.8 & 4.9, and then only with some
> coaxing, whereas no amount of tweaking seems to help with 5.x.
>
> unfortunately, it looks to me likely that any solution to the 1st problem will
> come only on 5.x, which leaves the 2nd problem.
>
> is there any light at the end of this tunnel?

Try disabling cardbus support in order to get the em working (Sounds
really strange but really helped my on my T40)

Arne

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