[ltp] INTEL PRO 2200BG 802.11 b/g wireless LAN mini-PCI card

[Alejandro Bonilla]

Hi SP san,

    You cannot put any adapter in your minipci. IBM has a whitelist of 
adapters that are allowed with them and fcc's. They try to make people 
avoid breaking the law.

    Anyway, ahh, let me know if you can't get it to work. :)

- Alejandro


s p wrote:

>What to do if the mini-pci wi-fi card you have produces the following
>BIOS-generated message:
>
>1802 Unauthorized network card is plugged in. Power off and remove the
>Mini PCI network card.
>
>Read this:
>
>http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/thinkpad/wireless.html
>
>
>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:20:51 -0800, obi <graziano@cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:
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>>On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:27:53PM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:19:26 -0800, Elliot F
>>><elliotf-thinkpadlinux@gratuitous.net> wrote:
>>>      
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>>>>Elliot F wrote:
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>>>>>s p wrote:
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>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>><snip>
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>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks to all for your feedback. Incidentally, I'm presently leaning
>>>>>>toward Ubuntu as the distro that will be used. Again, thanks to
>>>>>>everyone, and all the best!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Sam.
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>An 802.11a/b/g intel wireless nic is arriving today to replace the
>>>>>atheros card in my laptop.  It was only $40.52 shipped from newegg.com.
>>>>>I had paid $95 for the 802.11a/b/b atheros unit.  I'll let you know how
>>>>>it goes.
>>>>>
>>>>>Primarily, I bought it so that I could use the netmanager applet (which
>>>>>madwifi does not support at the moment.)
>>>>>
>>>>>Link to item on newegg ("WM3B2915ABGNAX"):
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=33-106-219&depa=0
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>It arrived, and I installed it.  I applied the fix to remove the wireless nic
>>>>check, so I don't know if it's compatible or not.  I'll try reenabling the check
>>>>and seeing if it works.
>>>>
>>>>The card works well, and is much more responsive to changing channels and
>>>>scanning than the atheros/madwifi was.  The 0.19 version I was using (that came
>>>>with ubuntu) had some incompatiblity with the madwifi/prism54 linux APs I was
>>>>using, so I have upgraded to 1.0.0.
>>>>
>>>>When I get home I will see if the version update helps with compatibility with
>>>>the madwifi/prism54 APs.  Basically, the connection would die after a certain
>>>>amount of time when using the linux-based APs.  I had to switch back to using a
>>>>wrt54g as an AP in the meantime.
>>>>
>>>>Pretty happy with the card overall.
>>>>
>>>>Elliot
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>>>>
>>>does anyone know off hand if the X24 has a minipci slot for a wifi
>>>card or not?  Also does it have an antenna built in or not?  My x24
>>>has a built in modem and 10/100, so I suppose I may have to give one
>>>of those up to get wifi.  I could care less about the modem.
>>>      
>>>
>>A quick browse into the forum
>>(http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=8165&highlight=upgrading+wireless)
>>seems to imply that if your model didn't come with wireless, you'll need
>>to route the antenna yourself.
>>
>>graziano
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>>>Alex
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