Can I replace the presect 11abg wireless card with a 11abgn card
If yes what is the part number
Someone please help
Suggest contacting your Lenovo in-country or regional tech sales about this for an "official" answer...which will probably be no.
The 3000 N100 hardware manual says 11abgn was never offered. Pages 73 & 74 of the manual indicate this in the table of various Mini-PCI Adapters that were built-in to all the types of 3000 N100's.
...but this information doesn't help you.
In regards to your question, you could try hacking this without Lenovo support and may be successful.
However, in addition to the stumbling block of an unclear path for upgrading your Notebook to “N” think carefully about the general practicality of 802.11n. It can be problematic to achieve the dramatic theoretical speeds of “N” in the real-world.
SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER PERTAINING TO 802.11N
To achieve the max throughput a PURE 802.11n, a 5 GHz network is recommended. The 5 GHz band has substantial capacity due to many non-overlapping radio channels and less radio interference as compared to the 2.4 GHz band.
Implementing a pure 802.11n-only network may be impractical for many users because the existing computer population is predominantly 802.11b/g only.
Replacing incompatible WiFi cards of entire laptop stock is necessary for older computers to operate on the network.
Consequently, it may be more practical in the short term to operate a mixed 802.11b/g/n network until 802.11n hardware becomes more prevalent.
In a mixed-mode system, it’s generally best to use a dual-radio access point and place the 802.11b/g traffic on the 2.4 GHz radio and the 802.11n traffic on the 5 GHz radio.
Some 802.11n devices that don’t support 5GHz or dual-band operation will be made to run at 54 megabits per second (Mbps).
Hope this helps.
Thank you for the adv.
I see mini cards available for 11a/b/g/n
I'll try one on my notebook.
hey ortegaluis, first, gotta say your acct name is cool...the elf from the woodland realm...
Do you know how to unlock the BIOS?
In the January 2007, Lenovo 3000 C200 (MT 8922), Hardware Maintenance Manual, a utility is mentioned several times that I can't find on the Lenovo customer support site, called “CE Utility Diskette” for Lenovo 3000 notebooks.
The utility is referred to as necessary for reading and editing the system board EEPROM in the following procedures:
* Restoring the serial number of the system unit [Pg 41]
* Retaining the UUID [Pg 41]
* Reading or writing the ECA information [Pg 41]
The utility is also listed in the last row of the common parts table [Pg 94] as follows:
* CE Utility Diskette for Lenovo 3000 notebooks
* Note: Download the file from the following Web site: http://www.lenovo.com/
This is the utility that unlocks the BIOS, no?
