Re: [Hampshire] USB WiFi for WPA Network

Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/7/27 Paul Stimpson <paul@???>:
>
>> I'm pretty sure I've got a spare Intel IPW2200 mini-PCI card if it fits and the BIOS in the machine will recognise it.
>>
>>
>
> A friend of mine has an HP laptop which had a nasty non-free mini-PCI
> wifi device which was a royal pain to get working. I had a spare
> IPW2200 one which we put in. Initially it didn't work because for some
> reason the hardware kill switch was wired up differently for the
> original mini-PCI device than the Intel one I supplied.
>
> The solution, scrape off one of the tracks from the Intel card !
>
> So don't be surprised if a card doesn't work right off the bat, even
> if it's a nice open friendly card like the intel ones.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
>
The Toshiba Satellite Pro A30 exhibits this behaviour. I took the
slightly less drastic route of putting a thin strip of masking tape over
the contact :)

James