Hi Ben, On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 08:52, Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It seems we bought a Lenovo laptop that has a BIOS lock where it will only > support certain wifi NICs based on the pci-id. It came with an Intel > NIC, so at least that ID must work... This is standard with Lenovo (and I believe this originated back when IBM was building the machines) as it's their method of ensuring some form of compliance - i.e. they guarantee that it complies with More details here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_unauthorized_MiniPCI_network_card > One way around this might be to over-write the pci-id of an Atheros NIC > in it's non-volatile storage to make it look like an Intel, at least until > the kernel boots. That is one of the solutions discussed on that page, it also discusses a few others with varying amounts of success. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
