Ubuntu 7.10 Wireless and IBM Thinkpad X40

Evan evangerard at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 01:29:56 UTC 2008


How are you setting up the card?  I would recommend downloading and
installing WICD: http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

On Jan 28, 2008 2:25 PM, Charles Dombek <cedombek at charter.net> wrote:

> I have an IBM Thinkpad X40 with Ubuntu 7.10 installed that refuses to
> activate it's wireless card. It is a dual boot machine (for now) that
> confirms that the card itself is functional. When I set up the wireless
> card as either roaming or targeting a known SSID, I do not see the
> wireless LED light or flicker. ifconfig shows that the ath0 device is
> present but inactive. Anyone have any thoughts on what else I might
> check?
> Thanks in advance for any help or kind thoughts.
> Chuck Dombek
>
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