[ltp] any wireless minipci card on an x30?

[Jack McDermot]

Hi

My thanks to all who replied. I just found about a more substantial 
difficulty: according to the ibm sales person on the phone, I was mistaken. 
My particular flavor of x30 does _not_ incorporate a built-in antenna. It 
does, however, have the free minipci slot.

Can anyone comment on what this means in terms of my (wireless) options? Can 
a minipci card be successfully used without an antenna? Or must has the time 
come for me to remove my faithtul SCSI cardbus card from the pcmcia slot and 
place a wireless cardbus card there?

Thanks for any input

Jack

>From: Peter Randow <gropie-rubble@gmx.de>
>Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>Subject: Re: [ltp] any wireless minipci card on an x30?
>Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:18:34 +0200
>
>Hi
>
>
>* - I know my machine has an empty minipci slot; according to ibm, it has 
>an
>* "ultraconnect antenna" built-in. However, on their website they only list
>* one card (the intel 2200bg pro) as being compatible with this model. 
>Since
>* I've got the opportunity to _buy right_, ie get something known to be 
>truly
>* well supported on linux, I was thinking of getting a card with the 
>atheros
>* chipset instead. (As a bonus it even supports a third protocol it seems).
>* So,
>
>I had the same idea with my X31.
>And according to google there were some people who had it running.
>But: It did not work for me.
>There was an IRQ-Problem -> the card never made it to the device manager
>in XP and crashed various Linux and XP installations.
>
>I phoned IBM (luckily I had an original IBM Mini-PCI) and they will
>replace my Mini-PCI with a newer model (39T0071).
>They say the card is defect.
>I am pretty curious if the replacement will work out, but they didn't
>have it in stock last week and this week, so I'm waiting until they can
>deliver it.
>I will phone again Friday ;)
>
>* Can I expect that a different minipci card will work in my machine? I've
>* read here 
>(http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/wifi-card-pci-ids.html)
>* that recent thinkpads such as the x40 have a restriction built into the 
>bios
>* which keeps them from running with some cards. Does any one know if the 
>x30
>* is like that? Or better how can _I_ find out?
>
>Maybe you need to search for BIOS revisions.
>But consider the disadvantages:
>- there will be a 4s boot delay after you patch the CMOS
>- the lights will not work
>- if you screw up, it is your problem, not IBMs
>- finall here the price decided:
>I got the IBM a/b/g for 86 - the cheapest ebay price was 69. That was
>not a huge difference.
>
>Greetings
>Peter
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