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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:48:26 est5edt
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Subject: OS/2 Wireless Users List: Re: MiniPCI ? was: new ThinkPad 8

Not necessarily true - but easy to check by looking at the connection on the mother 
board when you pull out the card.

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:24:44 est5edt, Oliver Mark wrote:

>
>Thing is, that you probably don't have built-in antennas, which makes the
>WiFi mPCI card pretty useless ;-(
>
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>28.03.2003 12.44.36
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>
>I can tell you this, you can remove the card - my T21 came with the 3m card
>which had
>no drivers and I relaced it with the Intel card for several $$$
>
>On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:41:48 est5edt, madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:
>
>>In <3E7F8464.5070005@2rosenthals.com>, on 03/24/03 at 05:19 PM,
>>   Lewis G Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com> said:
>>
>>>Charles -
>>
>>>MiniPCI adapters snap in and out via a little trap door in the bottom of
>>>the machine, much the same way as the memory snaps in and out. For wired
>>>ethernet and/or combo ethernet/modem cards, there are one or two cable
>>>connectors to plug into the card. For wireless, I believe the antenna
>>>connector plugs in (the antenna is in the display frame, or so I've been
>>>told (which tends to be a good place for it, acting like a big antenna
>>>ring, akin to a UHF loop).
>>
>>
>>Can one buy a mini-PCI replacement card?  My laptop has a Realtek RTL8139,
>>which is on a mini-PCI card I think.  I don't use it, as I use the
>>wireless exclusively now for the laptop.  Can I just remove the Mini-PCI
>>card?  (Currently I can't boot this machine without loading the RTL8139
>>driver)  Can one buy a wireless mini-PCI card (when the driver is finally
>>released for it that is)?
>>
>>Mark
>>
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