FRU 42T0825 (atheros 802.11n card) on T500

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Hello,
I'd like to buy an Atheros-based 802.11n (a/b/g/n) card for my Thinkpad T500. Unfortunatelly, I can't find any other FRU than 42T0825, which is for "older" (R60/T60/...) thinkpads. This card should - in theory - work with newer thinkpads as well, as the bus is still the same (miniPCI express), but no official lenovo page / tech support guy is able to confirm that.

Therefore, I would like to ask, if somebody has tried an older FRU/WLAN card on a newer thinkpad with original BIOS. I have pretty bad experience with modified BIOS flashing (though I have one prepared for T500 if everything else fails), so I would like to avoid that.

In case you wonder why - ask Intel about AP mode on Wifi Link 5300 in their WONTFIX thread.

Thanks for any comments / suggestions.

[Colonel O'Neill]

The only similar case I know of is here:
(Japanese) http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/ar ... 38933.html
(Google Translated English) http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... &ie=EUC-JP

In short, he tries to put a 4965AGN in an X200 but gets the 1802 error.

EDIT:
Connectify works fine with my 5300. What exactly do you mean by the AP issue?

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Thanks for the info, ... well, I guess I'll just order it and use the modified bios if it doesn't work. Therefore a list of people, who successfully flashed Zender's 3.09 (based on 6FET79WW) BIOS on T500 with discrete graphics, would be way too useful

Connectify works fine with my 5300. What exactly do you mean by the AP issue?

Sorry, I forgot to mention it's a "bug" in iwlwifi/iwlagn linux driver, the windows one might support it. The exact issue is http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/ ... gi?id=1585 . It appears to be ASSIGNED, though there's no noticeable progress as far as I'm concerned.

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One more thing that crossed my mind - will those cards be physically compatible? Will the atheros one fit into T500?

Since I have pretty much zero experience when it comes to mini-PCI express cards and their dimensions, I would like to ask if there are any size-based "classes" or "types" of slots/adapters when it comes to WLAN cards.

I know that ie. mini-PCIe flash-based SSD is too large to fit the WWAN slot, but that's about it.

Thanks.