2009/12/1 Peter Stuge <[email protected]>: > 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.
Thanks. >> 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: Ohh, I've forgotten they were using miniPCI these days... Yeah, this Acer is miniPCI indeed. AFAICS there are only few 802.11n miniPCI cards like TL-WN861N, WMIA-199N, Mikrotik R52N - all Atheros based. Too bad :( Anyway thanks for focusing me on that. As I told I didn't even think this notebook may by miniPCI. > 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.) This thing I used to call notebook is actually home-standing-something-without-panel-only-VGA-monitor. So external antennas are fine in this case ;) -- Rafał _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
