On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 10:23:05PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > > Also, I did not bother to try installing a non-Lenovo wireless card > > because Thinkpads have a BIOS whitelist that refuses to recognize > > "unauthorized" cards. Some people have modified the BIOS to solve this > > problem, but the modification attempts sometimes corrupt the BIOS and make > > the computer un-bootable, which I wasn't willing to risk. See > err? > it is as trivial as > sudo pkg_add tpwireless > and running that thing once.
tpwireless does not work on models like x41 and others of that age (and even newer models completly changed bios). It will patch the bios, yet the bios will still refuse to boot the machine with an un-authorized card in it. felix
