Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 15:29:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com> Cc: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, stable-list freebsd <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005171527190.72591@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikfQAoHYYDhs9175v-h-wtXNeiQOvfT58wPZhLI@mail.gmail.com> References: <4BF0EDC9.3090603@bsdforen.de> <4BF15A62.7070602@janh.de> <AANLkTikUjqe0qkGQuNOwU7TqYokwYeg4_TPsrbSBeBqR@mail.gmail.com> <4BF14C8C.1030804@bsdforen.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005170849230.71127@wonkity.com> <AANLkTikfQAoHYYDhs9175v-h-wtXNeiQOvfT58wPZhLI@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 17 May 2010, Christian Walther wrote: > Hi, > > On 17 May 2010 17:05, Warren Block <wblock@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. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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