Re: Centrino wireless support
Dan Pelleg <[email protected]>
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"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]> writes: > > Arun, > > I suspect that the T40 uses a Symbol (or maybe Broadcom) based WiFi > card and neither is supported at this time due, primarily, to the lack > of documentation on the card. > > You can plug most nay min-PCI card in its place, Last I looked, the > T40 was available with a Cisco card as well as the standard card. The > Cisco card is supported by FreeBSD. So are other mini-PCIs which are > based on the Prism 2.5 chip. > -- There is evidence that only *some* mini PCI cards will work with the T40. This is due to a limitation of the BIOS, not availability of drivers. Follow the links under "other wireless options" at: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~andrewb/x31.html I am linking the whole page because it contains some information and lots of speculation regarding the centrino wireless non-Windows support issue. -- Dan Pelleg _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"