Internal Wifi possible on Thinkpad A30?

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I've been looking all over the place for an internal wireless solution
for this A30 that I recently acquired(let's hear it for leftovers!) and
I was able to max out the RAM in it, but I've yet to find an >internal<
wireless solution for it. It seems to have a slot that would accomodate
it, but no one seems to sell one, not even used dealers/users, I've got
the standard PCMCIA card for it, and that works fine, except for the
antenna piece that sticks out the side and I keep hitting on things,
and the 10/100 wire works fine too. I guess I'm just finicky about my
toys...

Anyhow, any pointers? Email any ideas to me at bren384@hotmail.com.

Thanks,
Brendan

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No, that slot is probably for the built in 10/100 ethernet or modem.
Any laptop designed for internal wireless would have the antenna cables
tapped in that area, as the internal wireless cards (intel) don't have
built-in antennas. Just remove the PC-card when transporting the
computer. The slot in my Gateway 5300 is taken up my the internal
modem/ethernet card.

bren384@hotmail.com wrote:
> I've been looking all over the place for an internal wireless solution
> for this A30 that I recently acquired(let's hear it for leftovers!) and
> I was able to max out the RAM in it, but I've yet to find an >internal<
> wireless solution for it. It seems to have a slot that would accomodate
> it, but no one seems to sell one, not even used dealers/users, I've got
> the standard PCMCIA card for it, and that works fine, except for the
> antenna piece that sticks out the side and I keep hitting on things,
> and the 10/100 wire works fine too. I guess I'm just finicky about my
> toys...
>
> Anyhow, any pointers? Email any ideas to me at bren384@hotmail.com.
>
> Thanks,
> Brendan
>

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Jerry Abrams wrote:
> No, that slot is probably for the built in 10/100 ethernet or modem.

The A30 Thinkpads all shipped with either a combination WiFi/Modem installed
there or the slot is empty.

Modem alone and the ethernet card are installed as Communication Daughter
Cards (CDC) and are separate from the mini-PCI slot.

Regards,

James

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In news:JiaNd.11266$s16.4560@trndny02 "JHEM"
<James@ESAD.SPAMMERS.thinkpads.com> wrote:

> Bert Hyman wrote:
>> In news:lk6Nd.12930$QS5.2121@trndny06 "JHEM"
>> <James@ESAD.SPAMMERS.thinkpads.com> wrote:
>>
>>> bren384@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>> I've been looking all over the place for an internal wireless
>>>> solution for this A30 that I recently acquired(let's hear it for
>>>> leftovers!) and I was able to max out the RAM in it, but I've yet
>>>> to find an
>>>>> internal< wireless solution for it.
>>>
>>> It's WiFi ready and the mini-PCI cards are widely available on eBay.
>>
>> Current IBM laptops (A30 included) have checks in the BIOS that will
>> only allow IBM-supplied wiFi cards to work in them, even if they
>> appear to be "normal" cards from other vendors.
>
> The A30 uses the ubiquitous Intel combo WiFi/Modem .11b NIC without any
> problems.

OK; I didn't see any specific references to the A30 other than in the Web
site I mentioned, but R5x and T4x machines have been unable to use
off-the-shelf versions of the Intel 2200BG card without modifying the
BIOS, while they work just fine with 2200BGs obtained from IBM.

> There are tons of them on eBay as folks upgrade to a/b/g cards.

Good luck.

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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@visi.com