[ltp] any wireless minipci card on an x30?

[Michael Gaber]

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hi
it should be possible to install a mini-pci-card and link the cable to a
external antenna-plug, but then you'll need of cource an antenna, but
these are available in about 10cm size

Jack McDermot wrote:
> 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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