Centrino wireless support

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: "Arun Welch" <welch at igillc.com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:30:21 -0500
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> I suspect I know the answer to this, but here goes anyway. I'm in the
> market for a new laptop, and I'm eyeing an IBM T40p. If I save a little
> money and buy one of the preconfigured models then it comes with an
> Intel WiFi card. Is this supported these days in FreeBSD? My current
> laptop is running 4.8-Stable, but I'm willing to go to 5.1 if that's
> what it'll take. 

Arun,

I suspect that the T40 uses a Symbol (or maybe Broadcom) based WiFi
card and neither is supported at this time due, primarily, to the lack
of documentation on the card.

You can plug most nay min-PCI card in its place, Last I looked, the
T40 was available with a Cisco card as well as the standard card. The
Cisco card is supported by FreeBSD. So are other mini-PCIs which are
based on the Prism 2.5 chip.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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