Ntri, Please make sure that your card is always detected. You might have the same problem what i have. Card appears on random basis. I have played with bios the whole day and it did not make any difference. Taping out pin 20 did the trick eventually. Let us know if your card stard disappearing. Bes...

Ntri, Check if X201i and X201 have the same bios. You can do that by downloading both and compare files (the ones with FL1 extension) by using some checksuming tool. If they are identical then you can safely go ahead. BIOS moded by Mafet works (almost) flawlessly. Yes, rightly. I flash this bios on...

dyleck, I have been patched BIOS for WWAN cards and now, error 1804 disappeared. Test with my unauthorised 3G Sierra Wireless MC8775 module on X201, passed successfully - after installing drivers, i can connect to 3G network. I've uploaded new version of patched file at the same address http://www....

Hi All!

Finding modified bios for X201i for use 3G modem MC8775 and WiMax Intel 5150.

Thanks.

Maybe somebody to be interesting.
Video clips:

Windows boot and work

Linux on ssd

I make special deb file Linux kernel for Ubuntu 8.04, where working UDMA100, sound and WiFi on X40. If somebody need this, i share it.

In Windows XP all working fine.

YES! I build new devel kernel's version 2.6.26rc8, and UDMA100 will work :) root@tpx40:/usr/src# uname -a Linux tpx40 2.6.26-rc8 #1 SMP Mon Jun 30 00:12:32 MSD 2008 i686 GNU/Linux root@tpx40:/usr/src# root@tpx40:/usr/src# dmesg | grep ata [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000002f6e0000 - 000000002f6f7000 (A...

Hello all! I use CF-IDE adaptor with CF card SiliconPower 8GB 300x. His support UDMA 6 and fixed ide mode. I use 2 partitions. On sda1 - winXP, on sda2 Ubuntu 8.04. On windows XP transfer from flash ~45mb/sec. Windows booting 5 secs. But in Linux 40-wire problem, udma2 use instead udma6. I appling t...

Maybe somebody to be interestingly. In my X40 builtin sd-card reader ubuntu 8.04 reading big file from SDHC card 16GB Silicon class 6 fat32 70$ -- speed ~7.5MB, write same. root@tpx40:~# hdparm -tT /dev/mmcblk0p1 /dev/mmcblk0p1: Timing cached reads: 1088 MB in 2.00 seconds = 544.20 MB/sec Timing buf...

queueba wrote: Is it necessary to use 2 cables or just one is enough?

IMHO, necessary one antenna, but two antenns is better

Yet i add few antenn's photos.



Full mini worklog here

2queueba:

Antenna is necessary. Without it intel 2915ABG work very poorly.

PS. make antenn is simple.

Quattro wrote:Is that just a strip of copper?

No. "Schematic" from wimo.de's antenn "NB-2400 Notebook antenna 2.4GHz" http://www.wimo.de/download/nb-2400datasheet.pdf

Thanx.

underclocker wrote: Did you need to use the no-1802 hack to get the wifi card to work?

No, this error-feature not present on X22

Hi All. Maybe somebody to be interested. Installing minipci wifi to thinkpad X22. Now modem card not actual, i remove old minipci card (with modem lucent ) and install new Intel Wireless 2915ABG card. But in my city i not found wifi antenns and uf.l connectors :( I will have to build antenns from PC...