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It has whitelist for wireless cards ? That's just evil

• vitally3643 3mo ago
  Supposedly it's for FCC compliance. Makes perfect sense if you believe it, but I'm not super convinced.
• mmh0000 3mo ago
  Lenovo has whitelists for both wifi and cell cards. It's highly annoying. A decade ago, I had a Lenovo Yoga 2. The Wi-Fi card it came with only supported 802.11g, or something old and outdated at the time. I learned about the whitelist the hard way when I bought a decently (then) up-to-date wifi card to upgrade, and the computer refused to boot. But! I refuse to let a computer tell me no... So, after many many (too many) hours of reading forums, dumping firmware, flipping bits, and pushing firmware, I got the stupid card to work. And of course I took no notes, so if I had to do it again, I'd be starting from scratch.
• cosmic_cheese 3mo ago
  Not just that, they restrict the WWAN slot to cell modem cards only. This really sucks because it’s just mPCI and could host a number of other things. I used the WWAN slot on an old Dell Precision to adapt to a modern Intel WiFi+BT card for example (a 2008 laptop with WiFi 6E+BT 5!). On my X1 Nano, the slot isn’t even wired to an antenna since I didn’t get the cell BTO option, so it’s present but totally useless thanks to the restriction. They could at least let me pop a second SSD in there…