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

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 14:43, Scott Mcdermott wrote:
> Has anyone heard more about this from IBM or know of some
> way to disable the whitelist checking? It's really a shame
> to not be able to use the nice builtin antennas in these
> laptops with newer Mini-PCI cards (like the a/b/g combo that
> IBM themselves make, which is still "unauthorized" on both
> my X31 and T30 with latest BIOS) and instead be forced to
> waste a PCMCIA slot and not get as good a signal.

Bryan O'Sullivan just posted saying that he got an Atheros card from IBM
which works, but only after a BIOS update.  I've attached his message. 
I'm hoping to try one of these out myself soon (I've got a Cisco card,
but the driver is really only just works).

	J
> --- Begin Message ---
> IBM has a newish Atheros-based 802.11a/b/g card, model number 31P9701,
> which works with the Thinkpad X31.  I received mine last night and got
> the infamous error 1802 (card not authorized).
>
> I unplugged the miniPCI card and updated the X31's BIOS to revision
> 2.04, version 1QET66WW, dated 2003/12/02.  (I believe you must still
> have Windows available to do this.)  The system now boots happily, and
> the madwifi driver drives the card OK for me under both 2.4 and 2.6.
>
> I assume that the PCI whitelist of infamy is still in place in the
> latest BIOS, but at least it now supports a modern wifi card model.
>
> 	<b
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