From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:54:40 -0700 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Anyone know a laptop that supports an AR9380 NIC? In-Reply-To: References: <4F7350AE.1060805@candelatech.com> Message-ID: <4F73EB10.6010207@candelatech.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org On 03/28/2012 09:46 PM, Mohammed Shafi wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Daniel Halperin > 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 >> 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 >>> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ath9k-devel mailing list >>> ath9k-devel at lists.ath9k.org >>> https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ath9k-devel mailing list >> ath9k-devel at lists.ath9k.org >> https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel >> > > > -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com