Rafał Miłecki wrote: > I know there were some series of notebooks accepting only one kind of > wireless cards. Not sure what vendor was that... Dell or HP maybe?
HP and IBM/Lenovo both have BIOS checks for particular PCI IDs and only allow cards with certain IDs to be plugged in. > Do you have any idea if I should be somehow careful when changing > wireless card in my Acer? Sorry, no idea. > Also is this possible my notebook is just too old to handle new > wireless 802.11n card? Maybe too old mini pcie, or something like > that? Check that the expansion socket is compatible. The 4318 is probably a mini-PCI card and .11n cards are usually mini-PCIe which is very different and not at all compatible. The card you buy must fit your socket. I've bought an Atheros miniPCI .11n card off eBay for my X40: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400078624952 But I haven't received it yet so I can't review. It's supposed to be supported by ath9k. I expect that I have to fiddle with the EEPROM on this card to get my ThinkPad to boot with it. Also check the antenna situation. .11n often uses MIMO so it might need an extra antenna to be installed in your laptop. Note how the above card has three connectors, and comes shipped with one antenna. Also note the MIMO arrangement so that it fits your needs. (In simplified terms it can be optimized for receive or transmit.) //Peter _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
