Post installation questions.

SGrassie sgrassie at nildram.co.uk
Wed Oct 27 19:37:24 UTC 2004


on 27/10/2004 20:14 KenLin came out of the closet to say:

> Gnd. Wrote: 
> 
>>3. PCMCIA wireless. I have a 3com xjack that id like to use, it uses an
>>atmel chipset and is supported in the kernel according to the wiki. I
>>havent got any further with it though as it doesnt seem to show up
>>anywhere - even in dmesg..
>>
> 
> 
> I have noticed that atmel-firmware is available via apt. It appears
> that the driver is part of the kernel, but it needs the firmware
> installed to actually do anything.
> 
> note, I haven't tried this out. I've been doing some checking before I
> install, though.
> 
> 

I have an IBM Thinkpad X22, with a 3com xjack, I'm running debian 
testing on it (installed before I found out about Ubuntu), with the 
2.6.8 kernel, support for the card is in there, and after installing the 
atmel-driver package, it works just fine.

regards,

Stuart




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list