Sprint Broadband Card - Help Needed

[Bill Ricker]

On 10/22/07, Mike Byrnes <mb01915 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Everything is working great with 7.10 on my ThinkPad T42 except for the
> broadband card.

Broadband? Do you mean onboard WiFi, Bluetooth, or RJ45 UTP Ethernet,
or a PCcard EDGE/3G card?

> How do I install this thing?  I have looked throuhg the Ubuntu forums and
> read a number of posts which are primarily pre 7.10 instructions.  I am lost
> on this.

Probably Restricted Drivers Manager, but first do 'lspci' to find out
what you have, it should tell you the brand and chipset brand on the
card in question, which are the search keywords you'll need to find
the item in question. Exterior model # doesn't always change with
chipset, so this is a must.

My T42p (which is still on Gentoo, it is due for Feisty or Gutsy soon,
when I finish the previous two laptops) lists

$ sudo lspci | egrep -i 'eth|net|wireless|802'
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
$ sudo lspci -vvv | tail

02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
        Subsystem: IBM PRO/1000 MT Mobile Connection
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 (63750ns min), Cache Line Size 08
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at c0220000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        Region 1: Memory at c0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Region 2: I/O ports at 8000 [size=64]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at ec000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-

02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2711
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 (750ns min, 6000ns max), Cache Line Size 08
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at c0210000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-


with similar 'sudo scanbus'
pci bus 0x0002 cardnum 0x01 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x101e
 Intel Corp. 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile)

pci bus 0x0002 cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x4220
 Intel Corp.  Device unknown



and in boot, dmesg reports
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, 1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno at linux.intel.com>
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2mprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation


Good chance youu have same and need to use ;RDM for IPW2200, if you meant WiFi.

-- 
Bill
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