On 2008-06-16, Brad Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 14:33 -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 05:05:12PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> > On 2008-06-16, Han Boetes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: >> > >> I'm curious as to the 'modal' laptop that the developers use - >> > >> that would probably be a good steer for what to buy. >> > >> > X and T thinkpads are in the majority. There are a lot of >> > trade-offs between different models though, you'll have to do >> > some research to work out what's good for you. >> >> I purchased a X40 for travel to and work at c2k8. The only problem I >> had was with the iwi(4), which doesn't resume properly. I replaced it >> with a mini-pci ral(4) that resumed fine. But the ral(4) had issues >> with hostap mode. jsg@ fixed that shortly into the hackathon. > > FYI, newer Thinkpads have mini-pci cards whitelisted in the BIOS. One > can't install a ral(4) in them without hacking the BIOS (not > recommended). > > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_unauthorized_MiniPCI_network_card
I have an X40 and an X32, the X40 does not need the BIOS to be hacked, just change a byte in the CMOS RAM. Quite a different matter, and very easy to do (ports/misc/tpwireless). aiui X32 does need the BIOS hacking. But in my case I just used the ath(4) that came with the X40 (already whitelisted in the X32 and *way* better than the iwi), and put a ral(4) into the X40... Looks like ebay is also a viable source for the good cards.
