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I've got a TP240 and use it wireless with a PCMCIA card, but I've been offered an Atheros (AR5002G I think it was) internal wi-fi card that apparently works with the 240.

Anyone on here added one of these to a 240?? Any recommendations/pitfalls etc??

Cheers!

I have installed and tested intel 2100b(802.11b),2200bg(802.11b/g), and atheros 5212a(802.11a/b/g) mini-pci cards on my thinkpad 240 and 240x with both windows 2000 and slackware linux(10.1/10.2 w/ 2.6.x kernel). Atheros card gets the best reception among all three, Intel 2200bg is the second best and 2100b, understandably, has the shortest signal range. The funny thing is with only one anetnna attached to the main U.FL socket, under linux it shows nearly 95% of S/N ratio but only 34% of S/N on atheros card when putting the laptop (antenna) very close to the wireless router.

By the way the comaprison were based on the same antenna setup.

When you choose the mini-pci cards for TP240 series, remember to choose those with type 3b form factor in order to fit into the mini-pci slot.

Cheers TeeTee, much appreciated!

Sounds like the Atheros might be the best option.

Any recommendations for the antenna setup?? Under the keyboard or run it up into the screen casing?

I'd guess under the KB would be easier.......

I put the antenna inside the LCD assembly. There are some photos here: http://tinyurl.com/pbrnb (expired 3/8/07)
new link: http://www.ele.uri.edu/~sclan/xjv/index ... tp240x_old

Hi all;

I've got a 240X that I would love to upgrade with one of these wireless cards, but it doesn't seem like the antennas come with the cards as part of the package.

Where do you purchase the antennas??

The only card I see that is of Type IIIB on new egg is this one:


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6833173005

Anyone have exprience with this NovaTech card? Are any of the Intel cards at NewEgg type IIIB? Wouldn't life be so much more fun if e-tailers gave COMPLETE descriptions of their products?? Makes you think they've got something to hide!!

Thanks for the info!

From the model number listed it seems all Intel wireless minipci cards on neweggs are in type IIIb form factor(search keywords: intel wireless minipci). You can take the dimention of the card you know it's type IIIb and compare the others that you don't know. Or you can just do a dimention comparison according to minipci wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_PCI

Assuming you are using this card in the U.S. I wonder if the driver that comes with the novatech card gives you the ability to scan all 14 channels since in the U.S. there is this 11-channel limit by FCC. Well it's not an issue anyway. Ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11

Hi losmeme,
Did you ever install the WiFi card in your laptop?
I had good sucess with the Buffalo mini wireless card I picked
up on Ebay from the guys at wireless4laptops. They ship from
China so it can take 14days. I also picked up an Super G Atheros card
from them but found it caused freeze ups.
Hope this helps, Mike.