[Novalug] Puzzled

[Ken Firestone]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Dan Arico wrote:

   I'm relatively new to dealing with laptops so there are lots of things I run
   into that I never suspected were issues. Here's the latest.

   I have a Thinkpad T-30 running Linux. I've been using a wireless
   card that     plugs into the PCMCIA slot. It works great, but
   there's also an internal    minipci slot. Recently, I came across a
   wireless card that will fit that uses    the Atheros chip set. I
   figured "Why not?" and installed it.

   Now it doesn't boot. Instead, I get a message about an unauthorized network
   card.

   Whatthehell?

That is a Thinkpad thing. If you put unauthorized hardware into the
internal slots, it may refuse to boot. I remember there are
workarounds, but I never had the problem, so I don't know where to
find them currently. You might start with thinkwiki
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki .  There is also a Linux on
Thinkpads mailing list linux-thinkpad at linux-thinkpad.org that might
have some ideas.


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