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Posted Sep 27, 2008 5:21 UTC (Sat) by kev009 (subscriber, #43906)
In reply to: Wow! by sbergman27
Parent article: Atheros releases ath5k HAL code

This is pretty much standard fare. The notebook manufacturers claim RF regulations. I know Thinkpads have a utility to edit/disable the checks.


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Posted Sep 27, 2008 8:10 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

There is about 4 different ways to break Thinkpad's wifi bigotry.

The one I like is the hack that flips the bit that tells the BIOS to stop checking wifi devices. If you reset the BIOS it loses the setting, so that is very irritating.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_unauthorized_M...

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