Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:33:22 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Maciej Milewski <milu@dat.pl>, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Subject: Re: Well supported wireless card for Lenovo T520 Message-ID: <BANLkTinJpVDtPE37umtVdJ9hqf0biLLA5A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8CE1BDDB-BC80-4C31-AC6F-EA99D94DA9AE@bsdimp.com> References: <20110618034432.634C01CC0B@ptavv.es.net> <4DFDE8A0.90208@FreeBSD.org> <201106191624.46574.milu@dat.pl> <8CE1BDDB-BC80-4C31-AC6F-EA99D94DA9AE@bsdimp.com>
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FYI, There's documentation and code out there for doing this to the pre-11n NICs. This hasn't been done for the 11n NICs. Adrian On 20 June 2011 00:13, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > On Jun 19, 2011, at 8:24 AM, Maciej Milewski wrote: > >> On Sunday 19 of June 2011 14:16:32 John Baldwin wrote: >>> You might want to make sure that your laptop will accept a different >>> wireless adapter. =A0I tried to replace the Broadcom WIFI adapter in an= HP >>> netbook and the system refused to POST with an Atheros WIFI adapter. >>> Apparently the BIOS would check the PCI ID of the adapter and only >>> booted if it was the Broadcom adapter. =A0(The message it output during >>> POST actually said "restore valid WIFI nic" or some such.) =A0I resorte= d >>> to using ndis(4) (though it looks like the Linux equivalent of bwn(4) >>> supports my adapter now, so maybe someday I'll get to use bwn(4)). >> >> In such case there are options to find a card which was made specific to >> manufacturer or find the patched bios(or do this by self but that may be= very >> dangerous). I had such situation and went the whitelist way with my Leno= vo >> laptop and I have no more problem with incompatible wireless(wwan and wl= an) >> devices. The two computer manufacturers who are doing such security of t= heir >> profit are HP and Lenovo. I don't know if others are doing that too. > > The other option is to change the ID in the BIOS (hardish) or get a ather= os card that you can change the ID for (less hard: google is your friend eh= re). > > Warner > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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