It depends on the machine. This works just great in my 600X, as I wrote before. Newer ThinkPads do indeed have PCI ID code lists that restrict which cards can be installed. Not all ThinkPads do, and not all brands of other laptops do... and this card is on the OK list for many machines. And of course, there are ways for enterprising folks like the TCLUG readers to get around the attempt at vendor lock-in, on ThinkPads in particular. Hurrah indeed that we even have to. Chris > From: Matthew S. Hallacy [mailto:poptix at poptix.net] > FYI: > > This is a rebadged Atheros card with the specific hardware ID > necessary for ThinkPad laptops. You can't buy any old miniPCI > wireless card, you have to buy them from IBM. (If you try to > use another, it refuses to POST) > > Hurrah for vendor lock-in. > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 04:19:54PM -0500, Chris Schumann wrote: > > I have for sale one Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection > > MiniPCI card in perfect condition for sale. > > > > I installed it in my ThinkPad 600X, which does not normally have > > internal WiFi, so I installed antennas, and in the process > of fitting > > it to my case, broke the connectors off one of those > antenna. So I'm > > stuck with one antenna and using my laptop in the house. > But now it's > > warm (well up until today it was), and I want to surf the > web from my deck. Blasted aluminum siding! > > > > Intel provides a Linux driver for it, and I have used it > with FC2 and FC3. > > > > First $20 can come get it, or I will deliver it to you in > person or by > > mail for $25... or make an offer. > > > > Thanks, > > Chris Schumann > > (who can't be bothered to look up his tclug classified password) > > -- > Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, > BOFH Certified > http://www.poptix.net GPG public > key 0x01938203