From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 21 02:33:23 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E4E5106566C for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:33:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B3D48FC12 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:33:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws18 with SMTP id 18so1732789vws.13 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:33:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=1JhEhnBAsUZmuFUGCFKNwQQAT8EG6U8CfGfijR/hCU0=; b=ssilKqDG6cb+019CaicWUr/TBzmlZ6EPyoaMGhFt32pF8g7gss+ne3PwLU3eCAFaOH k/9xIO0w/L/IUmfyCpLFfpeBTSJ1ZqW2Ci+NPwvUPEBDOMo0pfb+7uTSEvjxMcSm+Yg9 3jyMAvuzOEnUqJhGjcYo4zR06rLmCSCuStKnE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=j9I2MNrAM6v6ck4j/PJXSi8y2zFaE+nQEe4oqPNxU0y615sRFxg9Aa3ACR/D4982uM uUi9+RY76fiidVtP5eDys6W5tTQs37ON/e8hH2Fv2STAkmyCN1hbyxzH69/+DLFUGt7n x7uEuQKLXXQHxw3sO/wd6RWqW7PNY3ZIjYVCE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.98.42 with SMTP id ef10mr8186482vdb.271.1308623602100; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:33:22 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.182.228 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:33:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8CE1BDDB-BC80-4C31-AC6F-EA99D94DA9AE@bsdimp.com> References: <20110618034432.634C01CC0B@ptavv.es.net> <4DFDE8A0.90208@FreeBSD.org> <201106191624.46574.milu@dat.pl> <8CE1BDDB-BC80-4C31-AC6F-EA99D94DA9AE@bsdimp.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:33:22 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Veye5xSotJ8VYF8OLovmquLDqTc Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: Warner Losh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Maciej Milewski , Kevin Oberman Subject: Re: Well supported wireless card for Lenovo T520 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:33:23 -0000 FYI, There's documentation and code out there for doing this to the pre-11n NICs. This hasn't been done for the 11n NICs. Adrian On 20 June 2011 00:13, Warner Losh wrote: > > On Jun 19, 2011, at 8:24 AM, Maciej Milewski wrote: > >> On Sunday 19 of June 2011 14:16:32 John Baldwin wrote: >>> You might want to make sure that your laptop will accept a different >>> wireless adapter. =A0I tried to replace the Broadcom WIFI adapter in an= HP >>> netbook and the system refused to POST with an Atheros WIFI adapter. >>> Apparently the BIOS would check the PCI ID of the adapter and only >>> booted if it was the Broadcom adapter. =A0(The message it output during >>> POST actually said "restore valid WIFI nic" or some such.) =A0I resorte= d >>> to using ndis(4) (though it looks like the Linux equivalent of bwn(4) >>> supports my adapter now, so maybe someday I'll get to use bwn(4)). >> >> In such case there are options to find a card which was made specific to >> manufacturer or find the patched bios(or do this by self but that may be= very >> dangerous). I had such situation and went the whitelist way with my Leno= vo >> laptop and I have no more problem with incompatible wireless(wwan and wl= an) >> devices. The two computer manufacturers who are doing such security of t= heir >> profit are HP and Lenovo. I don't know if others are doing that too. > > The other option is to change the ID in the BIOS (hardish) or get a ather= os card that you can change the ID for (less hard: google is your friend eh= re). > > Warner > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >