Re: ThinkPads with IBM a/b/g wireless card
"David W. Chapman Jr." <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:30:01PM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > I'm considering upgrading my ThinkPad to some newer ThinkPad > model, on which I would be installing FreeBSD 5.2 (I'm running > 4.x now, with no problems). Based on some previous postings to > this list and other places, it seems that most things will > work, but the one thing I wanted to ask about was > wireless. One of IBM's wireless options is described as "IBM > 11 a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI card"; however, the "Help me > decide" popup only refers to "IBM 11 a/b Wi-Fi wireless". > > Does anyone know what the a/b/g card actually is, and does > it work with FreeBSD? I'd rather get this than an 802.11b- > only card, assuming it will work. > I believe it has uses the atheros chipset and will work on 5.x using the ath driver. I have one of these cards but it only works in IBM thinkpads and I have a mitac so I had to get a different one. -- David W. Chapman Jr. [email protected] Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"