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- <li><em>date</em>: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:19:46 -0400</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)</li>
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If it is in fact using a mini-pci slot, you should be able to replace it
with a working card.
>
> On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 22:01 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>
>>It has a mini-pci slot that is used by the built-in NIC. I have the same
>>model.
>>
>>I thought it was dumb, too.
>>
>>There is a mini-pci card that can be plugged in that has both ethernet
>>NIC support AND wireless b support. The problem is the lack of an
>>antenna in the T20. You would have to find a way to route one yourself.
>>
>>I bought Orinoco gold pcmcia cards off ebay.
>>
>>On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 18:42 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
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>>>Dow -
>>>
>>>Not sure if it does or not - it's an IBM ThinkPad T20, I think. I'll
>>>have to check to see if it has a mini-pci slot.
>>>
>>>Jeff
>>>
>>>On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 17:17 -0400, Dow_Hurst wrote:
>>>
>>>>Jeff,
>>>>Just a thought, if your wife's laptop has a mini-pci slot with a
>>>>internal antennae that has never been used, you could go that route
>>>>with the Intel IPW2200 card. There was about a year ago a company, I
>>>>have a bookmark to, that sold the prism chipset in a mini pci card
>>>>config, if your interested in my posting that info.
>>>>Dow
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net>
>>>>Sent: Sep 25, 2005 3:23 PM
>>>>To: ale at ale.org
>>>>Subject: [ale] WiFi PC Card Market
>>>>
>>>>I'm needing to buy a PC Card Wifi adapter for my wife's laptop and I'm
>>>>not up on the Linux-supportedness of the makes and models one would find
>>>>in the typical Fry's, Circuit City, Best Buy, etc. I have a prism54
>>>>card for my own laptop that works fairly well, but it's not my
>>>>understanding that I can get the FooBar 65X3342 card and assume it has
>>>>the same chipset as the FooBar 65X3342 card from two years ago.
>>>>
>>>>I also have that classic problem that you can't really tell from the
>>>>shrinkwrapped box just what chipset a Wifi card has, much less whether
>>>>or not it's Linux-usable.
>>>>
>>>>Jeff
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<li><strong><a name="00576" href="msg00576.html">[ale] WiFi PC Card Market</a></strong>
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<li><strong><a name="00580" href="msg00580.html">[ale] WiFi PC Card Market</a></strong>
<ul><li><em>From:</em> jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)</li></ul></li>
<li><strong><a name="00584" href="msg00584.html">[ale] WiFi PC Card Market</a></strong>
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