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Your Thinkpad has an internal Wifi chip powered by Atheros? Is this an Intel-powered laptop? Or did you buy a 3rd party card and plug it in? Do you remember if
by anonymous246 16y ago
Your Thinkpad has an internal Wifi chip powered by Atheros? Is this an Intel-powered laptop? Or did you buy a 3rd party card and plug it in? Do you remember if you chose this as an extra-cost option when you bought the laptop? I vaguely remember that in the past one of the flavors of wifi used to available in built-in wifi only with Atheros (for extra cost).
I know Atheros own the (smallish) 3rd party card market. I thought Intel owned the (huge) built-in Wifi market for Intel-powered PCs.
[*] Sorry about barrage of questions. I'd just like to know understand what Atheros does better. Thanks.
- chronomex 16y agoWell, strictly speaking, my Thinkpad (a T30, got it used a year ago from a friend-of-a-friend) came with an Intel card. I changed it out for an Atheros card I pulled from a dead Thinkpad on a pallet a few years before. I have no idea if that was stock or not.
- anonymous246 16y agoThanks for the clarification. Your Thinkpad seems to be from the era before built-in Wifi, then. i.e., before Wifi was commonplace.