On 2013-05-08, Edd Barrett <vex...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 08:22:17PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: >> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 23:47, Edd Barrett wrote: >> >> > I see it has one of those useless intel wireless cards too. Can this be >> > swapped out easily? If not I can use my urtwn dongle. >> >> Depends on why you think it's useless. After the first boot, fw_update >> will get the firmware for it, and then it should work just fine. > > It's not the availability of the firmware that bothers me about Intel > wireless. I have had laptops with iwi and iwn cards (thinkpads) and > I found that the firmware crashes frequently. I have always swapped > them out for ral, ath or urtwn.
AIUI very latest iwn don't work in OpenBSD yet, and a slightly older generation (I have the 6205) don't scan properly but otherwise work quite well. No idea about earlier ones. >> All Lenovo systems have a BIOS whitelist of permitted wireless cards, >> although for many laptop models that turns out to be only variants of >> iwn anyway. > > misc/tpwireless ;) tpwireless last worked in the X40/possibly X41 type generation. For current ones you need to flash a hacked BIOS, or sometimes it's possible to change the vendor/device ID of the wireless card to a supported one and modify appropriate drivers to match / not match.
