Wireless Mini PCI card

[TonyH]

Hi,
Need some recommendations/suggestions. My T40 came without internal wireless card. When peeked inside there is black/white wire already
present(antenna wires?). Now which card should I install for trouble free
WiFi. Must I stick with IBM provided one or will generic card do?
TIA,
Tony

[AIX]

A generic card will not work, you must stick with an IBM one.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_PRO ... CI_Adapter
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_w ... twork_card

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=21144


From Hardware Maintenance Manual - ThinkPad T40/p, T41/p, T42/p :
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-46464

"In case of the antenna jacks have the tabs, plug the gray antenna cable with the tab marked MAIN into jack M, and the black antenna cable with the tab AUX into jack A. In case of the antenna jacks do not have the tabs, plug the grey cable to jack M, and the black cable to jack A"

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=20685

[umern]

A generic card will not work, you must stick with an IBM one.

Sorry to disagree but that is not my experience at all.

I installed the latest BIOS update for my T40 and have been using a Gigabyte 108Mbps GN WIAG02 for the past month or so.

Yes, before I updated the BIOS I got the error on bootup but once the BIOS was updated the Gigabyte card works fine and it only cost me £16+VAT from www.scan.co.uk

[AIX]

That's really interesting! It's the first confirmation I have found until now. Can someone else confirm if it works in the case of T41 with the latest BIOS update? I have a generic Intel 2100 card here and I'm not afraid to use it!

[umern]

Before upgrading the BIOS I even tried the no1802.com tool but it never produced any output and made no difference - still got the error - but once I upgraded the BIOS the Gigabyte worked fine.

I really needed to get the Gigabyte working becuase my Wifi Router is only truly stable when running at full 108Mbps ONLY mode and I could not find an IBM atheros based 108Mbps card.

[unicorn]

Before upgrading the BIOS I even tried the no1802.com tool but it never produced any output and made no difference - still got the error - but once I upgraded the BIOS the Gigabyte worked fine.

I really needed to get the Gigabyte working becuase my Wifi Router is only truly stable when running at full 108Mbps ONLY mode and I could not find an IBM atheros based 108Mbps card.

My bios is issued at 13/10/2005, didn´t accept Intel 802.11 bg. Cause it isn´t in the whitelist.
Should I use the no-1802 first or update bios first? Did u have a special version for your bios? Please give me the instruction.

[umern]

I ran the no1802.com from a boot CD but it did not appear to do anything because there was not output from the app and when I tried the card immediately afterwards it was still giving me the error.

So, I removed the card again and ran the 2005/10/25 BIOS update. Stuck the card back in again and no more error and I have been using the Gigabyte card fine.

Unless, all I can think is perhaps the Gigabyte card does something dodgy with its hardware id or something to make the IBM think that it is in the approved list - but then I dont understand why it was rejected before (unless the BIOS upgrade increased the list of approved cards).

Someone on Ebay is selling Philips 108Mbps atheros based cards and guaranteeing compatibility with IBM T40,T41,T42 etc (latest BIOS required) so I am not alone in getting this to work:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IBM-802-11a-b-g-W ... dZViewItem

Just in case it helps, I had the bog standard Intel 802.11b card inside when I first got the T40.

[unicorn]

Thanks for your reply, I will try

[unicorn]

Every troubles in my laptop is OK now. Thanks again