Notebooks compatibility with Broadcom cards

2009-12-01 Thread Rafał Miłecki
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? Do you have any idea if I should be somehow careful when changing wireless card in my Acer? It's really old Acer Aspire 5024 with 4318 as default. I'd like to

Re: Notebooks compatibility with Broadcom cards

2009-12-01 Thread Peter Stuge
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

Re: Notebooks compatibility with Broadcom cards

2009-12-01 Thread Gábor Stefanik
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: 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