IBM G40 networking?

IBM G40 networking?

[bill davidsen]

I just got a call from a friend who has to get a laptop identified as an
"IBM G40" unit. I haven't quickly found any info on that, can someone
give me a pointer to info on the network setup? He says it has a
10/100/1000 and wireless capability, but can only find one NIC. Since
he's a timezone away I can't just play with it, hopefully someone has a
bit of info on this.
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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

Re: IBM G40 networking?

[José Eduardo Martins]

Greetings!

He has a 10/100/1000 chip. Not three chips of 10/100/1000 each.

If he has linux aready installed, just 'cat /proc/pci' to see the 
chipset. Then, check if there is a driver.

bill davidsen wrote:
> I just got a call from a friend who has to get a laptop identified as an
> "IBM G40" unit. I haven't quickly found any info on that, can someone
> give me a pointer to info on the network setup? He says it has a
> 10/100/1000 and wireless capability, but can only find one NIC. Since
> he's a timezone away I can't just play with it, hopefully someone has a
> bit of info on this.

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Re: IBM G40 networking?

[Bill Davidsen]

José Eduardo Martins wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> He has a 10/100/1000 chip. Not three chips of 10/100/1000 each.
> 
> If he has linux aready installed, just 'cat /proc/pci' to see the 
> chipset. Then, check if there is a driver.

I would presume that with wireless and GbaseT he has two controllers, he 
wants the wireless off. He had already done lspci and found only one 
controller, someone in the office suggested that the wireless might be a 
built-in PCMCIA card or something, set with card management. Might be, 
but the moment passed, thanks anyway. Windows can see two controllers, 
unfortunately.
> 
> bill davidsen wrote:
> 
>> I just got a call from a friend who has to get a laptop identified as an
>> "IBM G40" unit. I haven't quickly found any info on that, can someone
>> give me a pointer to info on the network setup? He says it has a
>> 10/100/1000 and wireless capability, but can only find one NIC. Since
>> he's a timezone away I can't just play with it, hopefully someone has a
>> bit of info on this.
> 
> 


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Re: IBM G40 networking?

[José Eduardo Martins]

I was too snappy with my answer not giving my self enough time to 
understand the problem correctly. For that, please accept my appologies.

I understand now that he can't find the wireless controller. Yes, he 
might need pcmcia enabled. But the network interface only appears after 
the driver is running. Until that, not even the list in /proc/pci lists 
a Network Controller. Only a Unknown Device. This is until the kernel 
has previous information about the vendor and device ID.

It's possible that its something embbeded with Centrino technology. If 
that is correct, please se page http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ for 
more details. I can't explain in more detail, because I never needed to 
make that work. I know it works because I know people that made it work.
Not being embbeded with Centrino, I can't realy help much. This being, I 
suggest that it copies the name of the device under Windows and search 
about compatibility with Orinoco, acx100_pci ou other driver.

How now it helps.

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> José Eduardo Martins wrote:
> 
>> Greetings!
>>
>> He has a 10/100/1000 chip. Not three chips of 10/100/1000 each.
>>
>> If he has linux aready installed, just 'cat /proc/pci' to see the 
>> chipset. Then, check if there is a driver.
> 
> 
> I would presume that with wireless and GbaseT he has two controllers, he 
> wants the wireless off. He had already done lspci and found only one 
> controller, someone in the office suggested that the wireless might be a 
> built-in PCMCIA card or something, set with card management. Might be, 
> but the moment passed, thanks anyway. Windows can see two controllers, 
> unfortunately.
> 
>>
>> bill davidsen wrote:
>>
>>> I just got a call from a friend who has to get a laptop identified as an
>>> "IBM G40" unit. I haven't quickly found any info on that, can someone
>>> give me a pointer to info on the network setup? He says it has a
>>> 10/100/1000 and wireless capability, but can only find one NIC. Since
>>> he's a timezone away I can't just play with it, hopefully someone has a
>>> bit of info on this.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 

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