From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
Cc: Ondrej Filip <ondrej.filip@nic.cz>,
"cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net"
<cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] turris omnia cracks 300k in funding
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 13:20:45 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1512011318200.20919@uplift.swm.pp.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJnXXojpNygVdkHZcvXA039kRLbzcgth=sary5M-utg0hy-_pg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, John Yates wrote:
> Ha! I have purchased mini WiFi cards in the past and stuck them in
> laptops but those have always been the card sanctioned by the laptop's
> manufacturer. I guess it had not occurred to me that WiFi cards must
> conform to some standardized interface and hence be at least moderately
> interchangeable.
Most of the cards is actually mini pci-express, so it's definitely a
standard. On for instance Lenovo laptops, then what PCI-E cards can be put
into them is checked by the BIOS, and there are people that modify their
BIOS to remove this bootup check to be able to put non-sanctioned cards
into the laptop.
Vendors tend to blame for instance FCC for the "sanctioned card"-lock,
but...
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-01 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-29 12:02 Dave Taht
2015-11-30 17:18 ` John Yates
2015-11-30 17:26 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2015-12-01 0:18 ` John Yates
2015-12-01 12:20 ` Mikael Abrahamsson [this message]
2015-12-01 13:06 ` Dave Taht
2015-12-22 11:01 ` Dave Taht
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