Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:31:07 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> To: "Don Hinton" <hintonda@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cheap (supported) wifi card Message-ID: <539c60b90708092131v1037cae8v16532e57ff34d7db@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <18107.29558.834358.66922@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <18107.29558.834358.66922@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
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On 8/9/07, Don Hinton <hintonda@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi: > > I recently purchased a new HP dv9500t laptop. Unfortunately, the > Intel 4965AGN wireless card it came with isn't supported (yet). I > tried to use ndisgen, but it caused a panic (both 6.2 and > 7.0-current). I'm afraid you are in big trouble with a name-brand laptop. You cannot put a non-vendor approved minipci card in it without the bios locking you out. I tried no less than 3 different cards before I Google'd it and found this is a common problem - bios checks the vendor id or somesuch and won't even boot the bios config screen until you take the card out. I read this happends with HP, Dell, everyone. FIrst it was the recording industry, not laptop vendors. Next you're going to have to pay a yearly fee for them to even boot. Get a nice PCMCIA or USB card with an Atheros or Prism (and some Realtek - just got burned with a new realtek, however) chipset and you're good to go. I have a $35 store-brand card from OfficeMax that works like a charm - my HP laptop has a broadcomm in it, and I'm running amd64 - supposedly the 64 bit broadcomm drivers don't even work with Vista - big panic ndiswrapping them - gave up. Just Google the part number and chipset before you buy it. Steve
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