Re: [OT] "unauthorized" mini-pci wlan cards in thinkpads

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Hollis Blanchard wrote:

> On Monday, Dec 15, 2003, at 18:03 US/Central, Disconnect wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 18:16, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> >> the card and antenna are certified together. The cards that were 
> >> certified
> >> with that antenna work in that laptop.
> >
> > And yet I was able to call dell and just order an older card to go in 
> > my
> > Inspiron.  (A standard 802.11b card; orinoco on a pci->cardbus bridge.)
> > The only regulatory info they mentioned was including a pack of the
> > certified-by stickers to replace the ones that were on the laptop from
> > the original card.

the truemobile 1150 is just an off the shelf avaya/agere/orinoco/proxim 
minipci card... I happen to have one with an acer label in my inspiron 
4150 but since they all have the same fcc id they were all made by agere.

> What model Dell card exactly? I'm looking to buy a Linux-compatible 
> minipci wireless card (no Centrino for obvious reasons), and the only 
> models I've found listed at http://tuxmobil.org/minipci_linux.html are 
> apparently no longer for sale. I'd rather not pay for a Cisco Aironet 
> but I'm afraid I might have to.
> 
> 

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