WiFi doesn't work on Lenovo T61

[Albert Charron]

custom at freenet.de wrote:
> Hi,
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> I just received a Lenovo T61.. I thought it'd be a pretty mainstream choice, but to my horror the wifi refuses to work; I don't see any networks and when entering the network details manually it doesn't work either.
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> According to lspci, the netword card is: 
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>  Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
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> If I look in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules then I see: 
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> # PCI device 0x8086:0x4227 (iwl3945)
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1c:bf:ae:b4:08", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan0"
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> Help... any Ubuntu version I used since Hoary/Breezy worked with any laptop I threw at it, mostly smaller brands.. I thought it'd be a no-brainer with such a common model like the Thinkpad.. 
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Just to let you know that this card is supposed to work out of the box. 
I have the same card in one of the laptops I manage and it works perfectly.

Maybe a detail you can check, do you have a "wifi" switch? (maybe the 
antenna is simply switched off?)

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