On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
On 17/05/2010 15:44, Tom Evans wrote:
Note that not all laptops will play nicely with different wifi cards.
My old HP laptop would not boot up past the BIOS if you replaced the
wifi card with one not in its magic list, which I found out after I
had bought an ath based mini pci-e card to replace it (which is still
spare if anyone wants it).
Thanks for that information. I know that the if_wpi driver does some stuff
with the bluetooth hardware (I think the bluetooth hardware is part of the
wpi hardware) and the BIOS allows some pretty dedicated settings.
It really might all blow up if I exchange the hardware. I'll have to give
it a try, though. I think I still have an old ipw lying around somewhere
(from a broken Thinkpad), if this works I might consider buying ath.
The ipw card in my T42 is the older mini-PCI (no "e").
ipw has some driver problems (kern/142766), but Bernhard Schmidt is
working on it and has it somewhat functional now.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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