[ltp] 1802: Buy more IBM-branded goods (was: US Government May Not Approve Sale of IBM PC Unit)

[Aaron Mulder]

	FYI, it's not unusual for BIOS upgrades to allow newer wireless 
hardware.  But it still only allows IBM-branded newer hardware, as far as 
I know.

Aaron

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Jon Krabbenschmidt wrote:
> > So I have a ThinkPad T40 Centrino 2373 72U, and tried to install the new
> > Atheros 4G,  and the BIOS tells me this is an "unauthorized minipccard" and
> > will not boot. I guess I am up the creak because of the Centrino?
> 
> No, just that the ThinkPad BIOS has a list of ''allowed'' PCI-IDs.  To try
> and encourage you to buy the IBM-branded cards the message 
> 
>   1802: Unauthorized network card is plugged in -
>   Power off and remove the miniPCI network card.
> 
> is displayed.  You can read about it here:
> 
>   http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/wifi-card-pci-ids.html
>   http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/thinkpad/wireless.html
> 
> Enjoy.
> 
> 	-Paul
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