[ltp] any wireless minipci card on an x30?

[hutch@midwales.com]

On Tuesday 26 Apr 2005 20:38, Michael Gaber wrote:
> 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

Or you could look into USB
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11b.html#Atmel

>
> 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
> >> --
> >> The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> >> http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________
> > Don?t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search!
> > http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------
R. R. Hutchinson
Midwales dot com
web: http://midwales.com
email: hutch@midwales.com
phone: 0 (44) 1686 412144

This email has been scanned for Viruses by http://efe.me.uk,
a service provided by Midwales dot com.
-----------------------------------------------------------------