On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 08:39 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > So if anyone has one of these cards or knows where I can get one, please > > let me know. I'm tired of barely being able to use my laptop at school. > > I also have a T60 and did try to install another card into it (not so > much because it didn't work, but because it did work better than the > card in my wife's machine, so I wanted to swap them because I know > better than my wife how to work around the other card's > limitations ;-). Unfortunately, it seems that noone has figured out yet > how to tweak the BIOS and the other workaround (use the second MiniPCIe > slot) is not an option because my T60 doesn't have a second MiniPCIe > slot (damn cheap bastards).
Mine has a second MiniPCIe slot, it's on the left hand side of the laptop in-line with the audio jacks. The problem with that solution is that the antenna wires don't reach... > So as for finding the right card (which I haven't tried to do: I just > keep using the original card and bought a cheap (and better since it can > be an AP) Atheros card to put into the other machine): > I'd try various PC shops (the "dirtier" the better), since they may have > a stash of second hand (recovered from old/broken laptops) wifi cards. > E.g. I'd first try Dan's computer (not because I like it, but it's next > door, on St-Denis, between St-Joseph and Villeneuve). Go there with > your machine (ready to pry open) so you can try out the cards in-situ. > My guess is that they won't have too many "Atheros Mini-PCIe" cards to > start with, so you won't have to try too many of them. > > > Stefan 'the "dirtier" the better', lol I guess that's what I'll do, there are a bunch of those laptop recycling places near the airport, hopefully they'll have something. Today I'm going to give Andy's suggestion a shot, bye bye network-manager. Thanks, nick _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
