t61 uwb wusb feature. Has anyone gotten this to work???
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 7:37 pm
Has anyone actually gotten this feature to work? If so, what are the problems you have encountered in the process of getting it operational?
Since so few people know what this is, I have described it below:
UWB is Ultra Wide Band
WUSB is Wireless Universal Serial Bus (has nothing to do with wifi and does not connect to a usb port)
I have not seen any evidence that anyone has gotten this feature to work. I have seen posts about driver problems, bsod's, and a lot of people asking each other what it is, but no evidence of it working. In other words, using your usb devices without wires.
THis is a feature that was available on t61's and later machines. It is a mini pcie card with an antenna.
It enables you to eliminate all usb wires from your machine. THere are 2 ways to do it.
1.
THe cheap way, which is to buy a wusb hub. It is like a regular usb hub, except it does not connect to the computer with a usb wire. It has an antenna on it. This antenna talks to the antenna hidden inside the thinkpad. (the one that is connected to the wusb uwb mini pcie card.) THe hub has several usb ports, which you use to plug in your usb devices. Printer, camera, tethered phone as modem, etc etc. This makes it so you don't have so many wires attached to the machine and it is easier to get up out of bed to feed the dog. Also can be used to feed the monitor. Either through a usb port replicator or through one of the uwb wireless monitor kits. You can put the hub and all your peripherals wherever you want, and be free from them.
2. The other way to do it is to buy new peripherals that have the uwb wusb radios built in to themselves. Or to buy little mini uwb wusb hubs for each one (perhaps little thumb drive looking things).
On my thinkpad, I have the power, the monitor, the sound, the external hard disk, and the PAM (phone as modem), and it is quite a pain to have all those wires coming from all sides of the machine. I could eliminate all of these with this technology and some extra batts.
Since so few people know what this is, I have described it below:
UWB is Ultra Wide Band
WUSB is Wireless Universal Serial Bus (has nothing to do with wifi and does not connect to a usb port)
I have not seen any evidence that anyone has gotten this feature to work. I have seen posts about driver problems, bsod's, and a lot of people asking each other what it is, but no evidence of it working. In other words, using your usb devices without wires.
THis is a feature that was available on t61's and later machines. It is a mini pcie card with an antenna.
It enables you to eliminate all usb wires from your machine. THere are 2 ways to do it.
1.
THe cheap way, which is to buy a wusb hub. It is like a regular usb hub, except it does not connect to the computer with a usb wire. It has an antenna on it. This antenna talks to the antenna hidden inside the thinkpad. (the one that is connected to the wusb uwb mini pcie card.) THe hub has several usb ports, which you use to plug in your usb devices. Printer, camera, tethered phone as modem, etc etc. This makes it so you don't have so many wires attached to the machine and it is easier to get up out of bed to feed the dog. Also can be used to feed the monitor. Either through a usb port replicator or through one of the uwb wireless monitor kits. You can put the hub and all your peripherals wherever you want, and be free from them.
2. The other way to do it is to buy new peripherals that have the uwb wusb radios built in to themselves. Or to buy little mini uwb wusb hubs for each one (perhaps little thumb drive looking things).
On my thinkpad, I have the power, the monitor, the sound, the external hard disk, and the PAM (phone as modem), and it is quite a pain to have all those wires coming from all sides of the machine. I could eliminate all of these with this technology and some extra batts.