From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
Subject: [ath9k-devel] Anyone know a laptop that supports an AR9380 NIC?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:54:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F73EB10.6010207@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2nsn33m8_HNc7MqpMM57QQ96RiE87Ux4Ej7ERS3uUwzTgzmw@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/28/2012 09:46 PM, Mohammed Shafi wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Daniel Halperin
> <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
>> Anything from Dell has worked for me. In particular, I've used the Inspiron
>> 1525.
>
> so replacing the intel's card with AR9380 worked fine ? in case i buy
> a dell laptop in future i can use
> our own card :)
If you get a new one and it works, please let me know. Seems the Inspiron 1525 are
a bit dated, and I'm suspicious that newer laptops may have BIOS restrictions.
There are modified BIOSs out there though, and they appear to work at removing
the 'whitelist' restrictions. We got a WPEA-127N to work in an X220i Lenovo,
but had to cram it in the 1/2 height slot (and tape it into place). It was
not recognized in the full height slot...so perhaps some more BIOS hacking is
needed yet...
Supposedly, there will be 1/2 height AR9380 NICs soon...so maybe that will work
with the existing BIOS mods...
Thanks,
Ben
>
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It seems there are some with the older chipsets, but we haven't
>>> found any with newer 3x3 ones?
>>>
>>> And cramming a random wifi NIC into a random laptop appears
>>> near futile since the BIOS locks them out...
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ben
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>
>>> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-29 4:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-28 17:55 [ath9k-devel] Anyone know a laptop that supports an AR9380 NIC? Ben Greear
2012-03-28 19:00 ` Daniel Halperin
2012-03-29 4:46 ` Mohammed Shafi
2012-03-29 4:54 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2012-03-29 5:50 ` Daniel Halperin
2012-03-29 5:57 ` Mohammed Shafi
2012-03-29 5:56 ` Peter Stuge
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