Surefire way to upgrade T40 WLAN to 802.11g?

[Orclas]

Greetings,

With a few other minor upgrade and tweak projects going really well, I thought I'd consider upgrading the PCI-WLAN of my T40 2373 to 802.11g, at least in case it can be done for a small amount of gold.

It may be because it's late, but I can't quite make out exactly what I need to think about in order to get the right card, avoiding bios error reports etc.

Anyone happen to have a quick and definite answer?

[FarmerGregg]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0388750775

I recently upgraded to one of these Phillips ABG cards in my T40. Works very well so far. Cheap too. Just downloaded the proper driver Lenovo Support.

Gregg,

[RealBlackStuff]

All you need to worry about is the 1802 error, which can be easily remedied with a tiny BIOS hack.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_w ... twork_card

[Orclas]

Thanks Greg & RBS!

Mentioned Philips card ordered from Ebay, €12 including shipping ($17 for you yanks). Decent price to pay to let my WLAN run at G/N only (or more specifically router with N, AP with G instead of B/G).

It would appear that it's pulled from a TP, at least the pictured one had a FRU, so let's hope that means it's on the T40 whitelist for convenience's sake.

[FarmerGregg]

Orclas, When I look at the wireless adapter in Device Manager, it says Driver Provider-Atheros, Driver Date-5/2/2007, Driver Version-4.1.2.156. I never got an error of any kind. So they must be made for the ThinkPad.

Good Luck with the new card.

Gregg,

[Orclas]

I can now report a succesful install of the "new" WLAN card, including a welcome absence of any merde from the BIOS

For the drive-by reader I may add that the corresponding driver for this particular card can be found at:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-67214