Re: Recommendation for T41 Wireless
Jonathan Gray wrote: Get a Ralink based card, they work great. You'll have to run tpwireless from ports before you put it in to get around the stupid IBM whitelist though. To continue an old thread... Unfortunately, I cannot find a shop (in Denmark...) that sells a mini-PCI wireless ethernet adapter with a Ralink chips set (ral(4)). So, if ral(4) supported cards is out of the question, which cards do you then recommend? Thanks. --Martin
Re: Recommendation for T41 Wireless
On 2006/11/01 14:43, Martin Toft wrote: Unfortunately, I cannot find a shop (in Denmark...) that sells a mini-PCI wireless ethernet adapter with a Ralink chips set (ral(4)). Not exactly Denmark, but Wim sells them - https://kd85.com/soekris.html
Re: Recommendation for T41 Wireless
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:57:56AM +0100, mal content wrote: Hello. I was recently given an IBM T41 laptop. I've had little experience of laptop hardware, and no experience of wireless. The laptop itself didn't come with any wireless hardware (which, I gather, is a good thing as it would have been closed intel stuff). I would like to get some sort of wireless card for it. What would the users of this list recommend? It'll run OpenBSD 4.0, of course. thanks, MC Get a Ralink based card, they work great. You'll have to run tpwireless from ports before you put it in to get around the stupid IBM whitelist though.
Re: Recommendation for T41 Wireless
On 15/10/06, Jonathan Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:57:56AM +0100, mal content wrote: Hello. I was recently given an IBM T41 laptop. I've had little experience of laptop hardware, and no experience of wireless. The laptop itself didn't come with any wireless hardware (which, I gather, is a good thing as it would have been closed intel stuff). I would like to get some sort of wireless card for it. What would the users of this list recommend? It'll run OpenBSD 4.0, of course. thanks, MC Get a Ralink based card, they work great. You'll have to run tpwireless from ports before you put it in to get around the stupid IBM whitelist though. Hi. http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=136500 This uses the Ralink chipset doesn't it? I just want to be sure before I place an order. thanks, MC
Re: Recommendation for T41 Wireless
Am Sonntag, 15. Oktober 2006 08:57 schrieben Sie: Hi! I was recently given an IBM T41 laptop. I've had little experience of laptop hardware, and no experience of wireless. The laptop itself didn't come with any wireless hardware (which, I gather, is a good thing as it would have been closed intel stuff). I would like to get some sort of wireless card for it. What would the users of this list recommend? It'll run OpenBSD 4.0, of course. Personally, I run a ral(4) MiniPCI wireless card on my router (WRAP). It works quite well compared to the ath I had before. And those cards are quite cheap. ral0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 Ralink RT2560 rev 0x01: irq 12, address ... ral0: MAC/BBP RT2560 (rev 0x04), RF RT2525 Hope this helps, Stephan
Re: Recommendation for T41 Wireless
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 08:52:07AM +0100, mal content wrote: On 15/10/06, Jonathan Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:57:56AM +0100, mal content wrote: Hello. I was recently given an IBM T41 laptop. I've had little experience of laptop hardware, and no experience of wireless. The laptop itself didn't come with any wireless hardware (which, I gather, is a good thing as it would have been closed intel stuff). I would like to get some sort of wireless card for it. What would the users of this list recommend? It'll run OpenBSD 4.0, of course. thanks, MC Get a Ralink based card, they work great. You'll have to run tpwireless from ports before you put it in to get around the stupid IBM whitelist though. Hi. http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=136500 This uses the Ralink chipset doesn't it? I just want to be sure before I place an order. thanks, MC Well some companies like Belkin make it hard to tell as they change things. If you don't mind opening up your thinkpad you should be able to place an internal Mini PCI card. These have the advantage of having the main chip clearly visible so you can tell what you're getting. People like wim sell them clearly marked as Ralink cards. If you want an external CardBus card look at the device list in the ral man page ral(4). Jonathan
Re: Recommendation for T41 Wireless
On 15/10/06, Jonathan Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well some companies like Belkin make it hard to tell as they change things. If you don't mind opening up your thinkpad you should be able to place an internal Mini PCI card. These have the advantage of having the main chip clearly visible so you can tell what you're getting. People like wim sell them clearly marked as Ralink cards. If you want an external CardBus card look at the device list in the ral man page ral(4). Jonathan Ok, thank you! MC
Re: Recommendation for T41 Wireless
Jonathan Gray wrote: Well some companies like Belkin make it hard to tell as they change things. If you don't mind opening up your thinkpad you should be able to place an internal Mini PCI card. These have the advantage of having the main chip clearly visible so you can tell what you're getting. People like wim sell them clearly marked as Ralink cards. This is to the OP, but it's a good place to interject this comment: If the Thinkpad was not shipped with a wireless card, make sure that it's at least one of the wireless ready models with the antennas already provisioned in the laptop lid. The fastest way to check this is to pull the keyboard screws and the palmrest screws (The ones marked with the keyboard symbols, then the ones marked with symbols that look like a mini-PCI card), pulling the keyboard first, then the other. There will be two antenna cables, one marked MAIN, the other marked AUX. These will be next to or on top of the Mini-PCI slot that the wireless NIC goes into. If you don't have those, you don't have the antennas installed. Install kits can be gotten from IBM or eBay or some such, but require disassembly of the laptop lid as well, and can be really tricky. FWIW, you might want to check for those first before you make any buying decisions. -Joe -- Joseph C. Bender jcbender at bendorius com
