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Subject: Re: if_wpi is all kinds of broken
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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