[ltp] Re: Thinkpad wifi

[morpheus]

I understand that.  My point is that when I bought my T42p in June, IBM
didn't offer the ipw2200 chipset as an option.  The only way to get
802.11g was to go with Atheros.  At least, that's what they told me...

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 00:29, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> morpheus <morpheus@post.harvard.edu> writes:
> 
> > Well when I bought my t42p in June, the Intel chipset was only
> > supporting 802.11b, not g.  I asked IBM about it and they said that
> > Intel was very slow in developing 802.11g, which is why the IBM models
> > that support 802.11g have no "Centrino" trademark on them.
> 
> You're confusing two different chipsets.
> ipw2100 is 802.11b.
> ipw2200 is 802.11bg.
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