From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265264AbUFMUax (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:30:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265265AbUFMUax (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:30:53 -0400 Received: from web90108.mail.scd.yahoo.com ([66.218.94.79]:42347 "HELO web90108.mail.scd.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265264AbUFMUav (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:30:51 -0400 Message-ID: <20040613203050.4334.qmail@web90108.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:30:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Tisheng Chen Subject: Re: Solution to the "1802: Unauthorized network card" problem in recent thinkpad systems To: Vojtech Pavlik Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040613200743.GA1251@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org If you can't find a driver for linux, try ndiswrapper driver or linuxant's driverloader. However, the later one is not free. websites: http://ndiswrapper.sf.net http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/ --- Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 12:10:29PM -0700, Tisheng > Chen wrote: > > > Somebody did succeed with a X31. > > As I know, it should works for T30,R40,X31,R40E at > > least. > > Indeed, this version: > > #include > #include > #include > #include > #include > > int main(void) > { > int fd; > unsigned char data; > > printf("Disabling WiFi whitelist check.\n"); > fd = open("/dev/nvram", O_RDWR); > lseek(fd, 0x5c, SEEK_SET); > read(fd, &data, 1); > printf("CMOS address 0x5c: %02x->", data); > data |= 0x80; > printf("%02x\n", data); > lseek(fd, 0x5c, SEEK_SET); > write(fd, &data, 1); > close(fd); > printf("Done.\n"); > } > > worked just fine, and the notebook no longer > complains about an > unsupported WiFi card! Now if I only can get the > card to enable the > transmitter/receiver. It's a Compaq Atheros card > inside an X31 notebook. > > -- > Vojtech Pavlik > SuSE Labs, SuSE CR > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/