From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.28] (account lgrosenthal [192.168.100.28] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2185422 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:13:32 -0500 Message-ID: <4B6A1F3A.3030008@2rosenthals.com> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:13:30 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Intel Wifi 5300 chipset supported ? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey... On 02/03/10 07:25 pm, Stan Sidlov thus wrote : > Me? Yes, you. Glad to see you're still with us, buddy. :-) > The 2200 I bought from you was to put into my wife's Toshiba which was > only designed for Achereos(?) Atheros ;-) > cards in the BIOS/Hardware or something like that, I had to use a > blade to cut two of the contacts (this was a known) to make it work, > but the physical switches on the laptop won't work (a known). That > laptop runs so hot, that the card's holders are brittle and cracking, > too. > Ah, now I recall. I was thinking it was for a ThinkPad. Mea culpa. Still, I ran into the 1802 issue with a 2915 (supported card) in a T43 (it was a Dell OEM card and not an Intel or IBM OEM one). > I was thumbing through the electronic sale papers to day and laptops > w/ a i7 720qm w/4G ram, 15.6" screen, 3hr battery, 500 G hd, and > GT230M w/1Gb discrete memory were under a $1000. i3 versions half > that. There's going to fire sales on dual cores in the stores soon. > True, but much of the quality is tanking as well, from what I can see. Cases so light that they break too easily (and flex, which is actually worse); LCDs in lids with no rigidity; poor ventilation (okay, I run a T43, and it can fry an egg - though it keeps my hands warm this time of year!)...the list goes on. Still the business class machines are $1K - $2K. The others can be tossed after 18 months (which is the point, after all). Cheers/2 > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Lewis G Rosenthal > > wrote: > > Unknown. I know that I had a batch of 2200's and another of > 2915's, and at least one or two gave Stan some fits in a > ThinkPad. I was surprised, but happened to test one a few > weeks ago in a T43, and the dang thing wouldn't boot up (and > the 1802 fix for the earlier series does *not* work on the T43 > and above). > > > > > -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------