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

[Paul Sladen]

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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