> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 21:26:42 +0200 > From: Christian Walther <cptsa...@gmail.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > Hi, > > On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 17 May 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > >>[...] > > > The ipw card in my T42 is the older mini-PCI (no "e"). > > Yes, and replacing this card is a problem, because the wireless card > in many IBM Thinkpad Laptops have a custom firmware, and the cards ID > is listed in the laptops BIOS. It won't work with any card not listed > there. There are ways to either flash the cards firmware or the BIOS > list, but I don't think that it's worth it.
Assuming the the Atheros you are installing is one that IBM/Lenovo used, it will work fine. The 5212 in the mini-PCI format was sold by IBM for the t-40, T-42, and T-43 laptops and works fine. Other cards will probably not work in the T-42. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
