Hi Johan and all, fortunately the seller made the mistake in the web page where I found the laptop and he wrote that it's a centrino and in the wikipedia you can read:
"To qualify for a Centrino label, vendors must use all three Intel qualified parts for laptop, otherwise using only the processor and chipset will carry the Intel Core label instead." and the card isn't an intel one... I told him and he'll change the card and install an intel 2200 BG one and pay for the postage... That's an honest seller for you :) But I will still need the blobby firmware to make it run... I was thinking that since the seller is so nice maybe he's got a blobby-free wlan card lying around somewhere in his shop and I'm sure he'd change it too. I have looked in http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html to find out which cards are fully supported but it's not clear to me which of these cards still need 3rd party files. For instance "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG 802.11a/b/g PCI adapters" is on the list but I cannot find any warning or reference to the point that you need the firmware (well, yes, in the linked man page you'll find it) but which cards are as good as the intel 2200BG? Shortly: Which cards in that list are comparable in quality to the intel 2200BG but do not require blobs? thanks! Pau
Don't return the ThinkPad just yet, you can replace the chip with something else in the access hatch in the bottom. If not, just use a PCMCIA or USB wifi adapter. The ThinkPad is a formidable laptop for running obsd.
