Re: FreeBSD inquire

From: Arne Schwabe <schwabe_at_uni-paderborn.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:12:29 +0200
David O'Brien schrieb:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
>   
>> I'd like to see support
>> for these parts 'cuz they appear frequently in laptops; often with bios
>> locking which makes swapping cards problematic.
>>     
>
> Scary.  I've always assumed I could buy a laptop with any wireless NIC
> and change it.  Do you know which laptop vendors do this?  Can you say
> anything more on the "bios locking"?
>   
For example IBM Thinkpad simply won't boot (BIOS Error Message) if you
insert a non IBM WLAN Card.

Arne
Received on Tue Sep 12 2006 - 20:12:48 UTC

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