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Yes! I bought a Lenovo laptop in 2008 and tried to replace the wifi card with an Atheros-based one (better driver support on Linux at the time), and it refused
by brobinson 11y ago
Yes! I bought a Lenovo laptop in 2008 and tried to replace the wifi card with an Atheros-based one (better driver support on Linux at the time), and it refused to boot afterwards. Never buying a Lenovo laptop again.
- shmerl 11y agoI got one recently, and it came with 802.11n Intel card. I bought 802.11ac Intel one (it has a pretty good support on Linux). And who knew that some FRU part code wasn't from the "authorized" whitelist and that nasty firmware would refuse to boot with it. I had to return the card, and figure out what the compatible FRU part number is. The card is really exactly the same, just some internal code is different. This is beyond dumb and annoying.