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a/b/g/n atheros wifi card which works out-of-the-box?
Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 3:33 pm
by daten
Hey,
as I ran into the same "unauthorized network card inserted" issue as many others did (and I'd prefer not reflashing my BIOS), I'd like to know whether there is a mini-pci express wlan-card with atheros chipset which supports a/b/g/
n.
I was looking for PCI-ID whitelists, however these I found were quite old and didn't list cards capable of 802.11n
Does anybody know an n-capable card with atheros chipset working in my x60 tablet out-of-the-box?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Cheers
d@ten
Re: a/b/g/n atheros wifi card which works out-of-the-box?
Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 10:20 pm
by EOMtp
daten wrote:Does anybody know an n-capable card with atheros chipset working in my x60 tablet out-of-the-box?
FRU #42T0825 (ThinkPad 11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Mini Express Adapter).
Re: a/b/g/n atheros wifi card which works out-of-the-box?
Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 3:44 am
by daten
EOMtp wrote:FRU #42T0825 (ThinkPad 11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Mini Express Adapter).
Thanks a lot!
Does anybody have this card working in this thinkpad running linux and using it with ath9k?
If so, could that person paste the output of a lspci-command?:
That would be really nice, as there seems to be a way reading and modifying the EEPROM of recent atheros cards via ath9k - that way I just could try to replace the PCI-ID of my current a/b/g/n card with the one which is accepted by default.
Many thanks,
daten
Re: a/b/g/n atheros wifi card which works out-of-the-box?
Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 4:35 am
by loyukfai
daten wrote:
That would be really nice, as there seems to be a way reading and modifying the EEPROM of recent atheros cards via ath9k - that way I just could try to replace the PCI-ID of my current a/b/g/n card with the one which is accepted by default.
Just FYI, I tried doing it on a mini-PCI AR5008(X) on an X41T and it didn't work. Seems like the card is "too" recent and the utility didn't know how to work with it.
Cheers.
Re: a/b/g/n atheros wifi card which works out-of-the-box?
Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 4:50 am
by daten
loyukfai wrote:
Just FYI, I tried doing it on a mini-PCI AR5008(X) on an X41T and it didn't work. Seems like the card is "too" recent and the utility didn't know how to work with it.
Cheers.
Hey,
thanks for your answer.
we have a proof-of-concept util written by our own based on the ath9k API.
Re: a/b/g/n atheros wifi card which works out-of-the-box?
Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 6:13 pm
by hp79
You might want to search mydigitallife.info for whitelisted bios updates.
I got my x61t bios updated to a whitelisted one, unintentionally.
I tried cheap atheros G card sold on ebay ($10-$15). They worked well even before the bios update. But it felt like it was heating a little more so I put back intel 4965 agn. Now it feels like this one has heat buildup too. Not much a performance difference.