Well supported wireless card for Lenovo T520

[John Baldwin]

On 6/17/11 11:44 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I'm looking for a Half-height mini-PCIe card that works well with
> 8-stable. Any suggestions? My laptop has a RealTek card and I MIGHT be
> able to use ndis, but I'd prefer one that just worked.
>
> Any suggestions?

You might want to make sure that your laptop will accept a different 
wireless adapter.  I tried to replace the Broadcom WIFI adapter in an HP 
netbook and the system refused to POST with an Atheros WIFI adapter. 
Apparently the BIOS would check the PCI ID of the adapter and only 
booted if it was the Broadcom adapter.  (The message it output during 
POST actually said "restore valid WIFI nic" or some such.)  I resorted 
to using ndis(4) (though it looks like the Linux equivalent of bwn(4) 
supports my adapter now, so maybe someday I'll get to use bwn(4)).

-- 
John Baldwin