Hello Michał,
I think you should ask Lenovo support for the list of whitelisted cards
for your model. Or search this information in their documents/message
boards.
I had (almost) the same problem - the card of ThinkPad T530 was not
working correctly (Centrino Advanced-N 6205). I bought second hand
/Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 FRU 60Y3233/ card to replace it. This card
works 'out-of-the-box' on FreeBSD.
I suppose that this card could work for you, so if you can find it at
ebay (with a possibility to send back if something goes wrong) - you can
try ;)
Best regards,
Peter
On 23/05/2023 10:11, Michal Sapka wrote:
Hello
I am currently using AX200 card. As we all know FreeBSD is yet to properly
support it. I want to buy some temporary Wi-Fi card to use, but the selection
process is very problematic.
If I understand correctly, my laptop (Thinkpad X1 Extreme) is compatible with
mSATA cards but most of the ones I found are not whitelisted in the bios by
Lenovo. Moreover, I'd love the drivers not to be a blob (like for Intel) but
open. This is also something I don't truly understand, so correct me if I'm
wrong but if the driver is in /sys/dev of FreeBSD then it means the full driver
is there, right?
But back to the problem: does anyone know of any mSATA Wi-Fi adapter that is
working on Lenovo laptops under FreeBSD?
—-
Michał
https://michal.sapka.me
