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From: Maciej Milewski <milu@dat.pl>
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Cc: William Bulley <web@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE driver support on Thinkpad T500
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Dnia =B6roda, 3 lutego 2010 o 16:48:16 William Bulley napisa=B3(a):
> Would it do any good to upgrade to 8.0-STABLE, or am I out of luck
> with this particular piece of wireless hardware?  If so, I am hoping
> that Lenovo designed the T500 with a removable wifi module so that I
> might (possibly) replace it with one supported by the ath(4) driver.

Info about this driver is on forums[1]. I think that it has been commited t=
o=20
HEAD and it can be on his way to STABLE branch but this I'm not sure.

1. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D8041

Regards,
Maciej Milewski