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One of my Lenovo laptops has firmware to prevent me from upgrading its WiFi card using off the shelf components. If it's successful one would expect availabili
by piceas 4y ago
One of my Lenovo laptops has firmware to prevent me from upgrading its WiFi card using off the shelf components.
If it's successful one would expect availability to increase.
- greyhair 4y agoIs it a Lenovo ThinkPad, or one of their other models?
- ekianjo 4y agoSome thinkpads have a whitelist for wireless chips in the firmware, that's known - but I am not sure how widespread it is.
- piceas 4y agoThat one was a yoga 2 pro. An unfortunate choice to stray from the T and X series on my part. Or, they could have chosen not to add software limitations and Superfish or at least made it clear before I bought it.
- IE6 4y agoIt was reported recently that they are also doing the same thing with the CPU in some of their machines. As someone who has bought older Xeon CPUs to upgrade older PCs (often giving them years more useful life) that is frustrating.