On 17/05/2010 23:29, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 2010, Christian Walther wrote: > >> 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. > > Just because I have this link handy: > http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/wifi-card-pci-ids.html > > That also has a link to some information on HP's version of the same thing.
The official genuine parts list for my notebook only lists Intel and Boradcom wireless modules. So I suppose I'll just have to risk buying a PCIe Atheros that I cannot use. Regards -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ 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"
