Gigabit in A31p (change from 100Mbit to it)

[jadzia]

Is it possible?
Seems i would just have to change the little card inside.
(dunno the standard its smaller than about the half of mini pci)

Is something like that available?

[ajkula66]

I don't believe so.

It's not about swapping the card (where are you going to find a Gigabit card that won't give you an error, BTW?) but mainly about what motherboard will make out of that signal...

[jadzia]

Yeah you`r right.
i just thought its possible since it was also easily possible to change the WLAN mini PCI card to an Intel 2200 BG. And it works nice with the 180x.com prog

[sjthinkpader]

All our new Thinkpads in the office have GE so I added a 48 port GE switch also. I then bought a Buffalo HDD box with GE. But our T1 line to the world is far from GE and the HP LaseJets and ScanJets will not benefit from GE.

After the conversion, only backup job became faster. I installed a GE card in the Scanjet anyway but there are no significant performance improvement from this device.

My NAS box at home only has 16mb thru put so it is far from utilizing the 100Mb bandwidth in the LAN. The most benefit you will get is by working on the slowest piece in your system such as adding RAM to your network printer. So both my HP LJ5 and Minolta 2430DL at home are max'ed out in RAM.

[david_thinkpad]

I never got a chance to test it. I tried to see if a different driver would allow for a gigabit ethernet type of connectivity. Well after much debate I went to driveragent.com and got the generic 10/100/1000 driver from intel. Now the card reported it could do Gig-E but I never tested it. I don't remember (and didn't write it down/bookmark it) but the card stated it could do it, but I never tested it. I can't say I have tested it, when I installed the driver I think it flashed the network card's prom as well because the MAC address changed. I honestly didn't think a MAC address for a NIC could be changed. However, I confirmed this with 4 different routers to make sure I wasn't seeing things, the USR8054, another linksys, my linksys, and a 2wire all reported the different MAC address.

I was thoroughly confused after that one cause frankly, that's around the time my lappy became damaged.

I should have wrote more of my results down and had I known it changed that I would have wrote down what the old address was, at the time I wasn't using DD-WRT on the linky's but I am now so next time if I get another IBM A31p I am going to get a before and after shot of the MAC address. Then I will have proof of what I confirmed.

[spuddog]

It's not hard at all to spoof the mac address. It can be done with a registry edit or using free software available on the net.

Scott

[david_thinkpad]

It's not hard at all to spoof the mac address. It can be done with a registry edit or using free software available on the net.

Scott

Well yea I get that part, that was my way to confirm that the thing did change. I was more interested in the Gig-E than the MAC address.

For those wanting to try it, I have a subscription to driveragent.com and got the "alternate" driver (Intel) from that site.