Debian Sarge on IBM X40 howto - Part 6: Wireless (Take 2)

30 Jul 2004

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I found out that I had been using a completly wrong driver for my wireless card. The juice for my card is a Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi (MADWIFI). I found a Debian specific driver compile guide on their homepage.

Debian Sarge on IBM X40 howto - Part 5: CPU frequency scaling

23 Jul 2004

This was quite easy:

Debian Sarge on IBM X40 howto - Part 4: Wireless

23 Jul 2004

I was really nerveus about getting wireless to work…

Debian Sarge on IBM X40 howto - Part 3: Enable framebuffer

23 Jul 2004

The IBM X40 seems to like using framebuffer so might find it usefull to put the following in you grub /boot/grub/menu.lst

Debian Sarge on IBM X40 howto - Part 2: Battery monitor

23 Jul 2004

After I had a console which worked correctly I installed the usual stuf like: ssh less modconf emacs21