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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
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Subject: Re: Well supported wireless card for Lenovo T520
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Kevin Oberman writes:
| 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?

ThinkPads generic wireless adapter seems to have switched from Atheros
to Realtek :-(  It wouldn't be bad if driver support existed.  I couldn't
get ndis to work with that card.  I have with others.

The other option for ThinkPads is Intel.  They seem to work fairly well
with iwn(4), older Intel cards used iwi(4).  With ThinkPad Intel cards
they usually list the chip number then you can look at the driver/man
page to see if it is supported.

The Intel stuff works okay, but Atheros seemed faster.  The Intel will
stall at times on some large transfers.  It recovers.

Doug A.