Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 vs. Broadcom BCM9430x | From | Anders Karlsson <> | Date | 12 Jun 2003 22:52:04 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:17, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:37, Anders Karlsson wrote: > > And that is if your laptop will allow such a card to be plugged in and > > used of course. Thinkpads with the tcpa chip in them might not allow > > such a card, > > Nothing to do with TCPA: my laptop doesn't have one, and it objects to > "foreign" wireless cards. Plain old BIOS is enough.
I based my statement on a discussion from about a week ago on the list and that seemed to indicate that the IBM Thinkpads had a 'white-list' of sorts to allow only some specific mini-PCI cards. IIRC it was the T40, R40 and X31 that was affected.
Apologies if my statement was incorrect.
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