From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 19 12:16:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D52651065707 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:16:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2748FC15 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:16:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 61D5D46B03; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:16:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from John-Baldwins-Macbook-Pro.local (c-68-36-150-83.hsd1.nj.comcast.net [68.36.150.83]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E1CFC8A01F; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:16:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DFDE8A0.90208@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:16:32 -0400 From: John Baldwin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman References: <20110618034432.634C01CC0B@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20110618034432.634C01CC0B@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:16:33 -0400 (EDT) Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Well supported wireless card for Lenovo T520 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:16:33 -0000 On 6/17/11 11:44 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I'm looking for a Half-height mini-PCIe card that works well with > 8-stable. Any suggestions? My laptop has a RealTek card and I MIGHT be > able to use ndis, but I'd prefer one that just worked. > > Any suggestions? You might want to make sure that your laptop will accept a different wireless adapter. I tried to replace the Broadcom WIFI adapter in an HP netbook and the system refused to POST with an Atheros WIFI adapter. Apparently the BIOS would check the PCI ID of the adapter and only booted if it was the Broadcom adapter. (The message it output during POST actually said "restore valid WIFI nic" or some such.) I resorted to using ndis(4) (though it looks like the Linux equivalent of bwn(4) supports my adapter now, so maybe someday I'll get to use bwn(4)). -- John Baldwin