Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 14:57:49 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Arun Welch" <welch@igillc.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Centrino wireless support Message-ID: <20030704215749.B36B25D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Arun Welch" <welch@igillc.com> of "Tue, 01 Jul 2003 11:30:21 CDT." <020601c33fee$1109b100$c77ba8c0@rune>
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> From: "Arun Welch" <welch@igillc.com> > Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:30:21 -0500 > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > I suspect I know the answer to this, but here goes anyway. I'm in the > market for a new laptop, and I'm eyeing an IBM T40p. If I save a little > money and buy one of the preconfigured models then it comes with an > Intel WiFi card. Is this supported these days in FreeBSD? My current > laptop is running 4.8-Stable, but I'm willing to go to 5.1 if that's > what it'll take. 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. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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