Date: 05 Jul 2003 06:01:02 -0400 From: Dan Pelleg <daniel+bsd@pelleg.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Centrino wireless support Message-ID: <u2sr855e1i9.fsf@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030704215749.B36B25D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <20030704215749.B36B25D07@ptavv.es.net>
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"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes: > > Arun, > > I suspect that the T40 uses a Symbol (or maybe Broadcom) based WiFi > card and neither is supported at this time due, primarily, to the lack > of documentation on the card. > > You can plug most nay min-PCI card in its place, Last I looked, the > T40 was available with a Cisco card as well as the standard card. The > Cisco card is supported by FreeBSD. So are other mini-PCIs which are > based on the Prism 2.5 chip. > -- There is evidence that only *some* mini PCI cards will work with the T40. This is due to a limitation of the BIOS, not availability of drivers. Follow the links under "other wireless options" at: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~andrewb/x31.html I am linking the whole page because it contains some information and lots of speculation regarding the centrino wireless non-Windows support issue. -- Dan Pelleg
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