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Date:      Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:12:29 +0200
From:      Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>,  Reid Linnemann <lreid@a.cs.okstate.edu>, cms01@tampabay.rr.com
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD inquire
Message-ID:  <450730CD.301@uni-paderborn.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060912194349.GA36471@dragon.NUXI.org>
References:  <200609121102.12577.cms01@tampabay.rr.com>	<d8a4930a0609120816ge8de09ci2fa764c477df7d26@mail.gmail.com>	<200609121141.09204.cms01@tampabay.rr.com>	<4506F6DF.5010900@cs.okstate.edu> <4506FE59.6000600@errno.com> <20060912194349.GA36471@dragon.NUXI.org>

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David O'Brien schrieb:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
>   
>> I'd like to see support
>> for these parts 'cuz they appear frequently in laptops; often with bios
>> locking which makes swapping cards problematic.
>>     
>
> Scary.  I've always assumed I could buy a laptop with any wireless NIC
> and change it.  Do you know which laptop vendors do this?  Can you say
> anything more on the "bios locking"?
>   
For example IBM Thinkpad simply won't boot (BIOS Error Message) if you
insert a non IBM WLAN Card.

Arne



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