working mini-pcie wlan card
i currently have a notebook with an Intel 5100 mini-pcie wifi card - which is not supported by Os X and won't be the next time. so i want to buy a new one (internal, and throw the old one away - so i don't want to buy any usb stuff). So…
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i currently have a notebook with an Intel 5100 mini-pcie wifi card - which is not supported by Os X and won't be the next time.
so i want to buy a new one (internal, and throw the old one away - so i don't want to buy any usb stuff).
So here's the question i need one that works under Win 7 also and that has Draft N.
Are there any not too expensive ones around?
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thanks for that nfo.
but my problem is that i have a Lenovo Thinkpad sl300 and there are some BIOS restrictions so that i can't use any chip.
So does anybody know where to get one which would be compatible?
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I have the Dell 1490a/b/g card (not n) as a recommendation from a friend and it works wonderfully, native airport OOTB. Dunno about n cards, but you could try the Dell 1510 i think or something similar from that range, mind you that Broadcom chipsets are most compatible with OSX, i think
There are ways around the BIOS restrictions, I got a Dell card to work on my HP laptop (it took some work).
Browse through the compatible hardware lists here: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ↗
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
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| @pumpin | Primary Author | 2 | 2009-11-24 → 2009-11-29 |
| @flip360 | Contributor | 1 | 2009-11-24 |
| @derekreid | Contributor | 1 | 2009-12-01 |