IBM T40 Error 1802 Unauthorized Network Card

[penguin1]

Hi all,

I have just recently bought the PRO/WIRELESS LAN 2200 802.11G MINI-PCI TYPE III NIC, and tried installing it in my IBM T40 notebook. Everytime I turn the machine on it comes up with:

ERROR
1802: Unauthorized network card is plugged in -
Power off and remove the miniPCI network card.

Is there any way to get around this or fix this?

Thank you very much

Tim

 

[amdskip]

Possible solution

 

[penguin1]

Thanks for the quick response....i will post on the results


THANKS AGAIN!!!

 

[Lord Evermore]

So...why exactly does IBM decide someone who buys one of their laptops may not install some other brand of peripheral? And why have they not been sued? Haven't other companies gotten into trouble for hiding features that disable or prevent installation of other products?

 

[LiLithTecH]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
So...why exactly does IBM decide someone who buys one of their laptops may not install some other brand of peripheral? And why have they not been sued? Haven't other companies gotten into trouble for hiding features that disable or prevent installation of other products?

It's called Product Customization.

An Example would be why the brake pads on one Car line do not fit other Car lines or
even other products within the same Car Manufacturer.

 

[Lord Evermore]

However a mini-PCI card is a mini-PCI card. This is not a physical or technological issue as proprietary, internally-designed car parts would be, it's just a software setting that they don't bother mentioning when you buy the product. If you were only allowed to play Vivendi/Universal branded CDs in your CompactDiscDigitalAudio labelled CD player in your new car, you wouldn't say GM just customized their CD players (and Philips would have something to say about it too).

I'd say call IBM and tell them it's defective, and talk through the chain of management. Check the manual first though, see if it actually says anywhere that this limitation exists. Regardless of that, you certainly couldn't read the manual before you bought a product with a standard technology that is disabled.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
If you were only allowed to play Vivendi/Universal branded CDs in your CompactDiscDigitalAudio labelled CD player in your new car, you wouldn't say GM just customized their CD players (and Philips would have something to say about it too).

No. That is called "Marketing".
How many Optional\Included CD players would GM sell if they did that?

Not much different than DELL putting in their own redesigned ATX PSU, or Compaq having
their own proprietary DSP chips (much like IBM does).

 

[Belteshazzar]

The only way to rectify this is to either buy a IBM mini-pci card or, put your computer in suspended mode, pop in the card, turn it on and use it that way. Of course you will have to do that every time you want to use your network, after awhile it does get a bit tedious.

 

[Lord Evermore]

No big-brand PC's specs list "ATX 2.03 power supply", so I wouldn't have any issue with an odd shaped power supply, or even one that uses a different connector, or an odd motherboard design, or anything related to the shape or design of the PC. But, if it says it has PCI slots, then those slots had damn well better work with any standard PCI device I insert (aside from buggy drivers or bad design of course). If they were to make it so only IBM PCI devices could be installed, then I would consider that false advertising.

All I care about is technological compatibility. There are accepted standards for what people consider upgradeable and what's not. Buy a brand-name PC, and you accept that you can only upgrade certain items. Buy a laptop, and you accept that almost nothing is upgradeable. But buy a laptop that specifically has a user-upgradeable slot, and one assumes it isn't a non-standard slot.

It is not "marketing" if the user is never told about it until he attempts to perform an upgrade that is assumed to be standard. Marketing would be if the slot was advertised as an "IBM super small expansion slot(TM), accepting high performance IBM devices".

 

[gnubea]

it is well known that the issue is just how it is programmed in its BIOS. And you can find numerous websites that tells you how to rectify in your side by voiding your warranty. I am afraid if IBM wanted to have two benefits:

1. a lot of warranty voiding
2. very high asp of their blessed network card.

BTW, IBM released a BIOS update for series of thinkpads that specifically remedies this 1802 problem. But not sure how extensive it is. I am going to try it. I hope it will at least enable the ones that are sold by IBM. (did you know that it may not work if it didn't come with your notebook ? it doesn't matter if ibm blessed it or not. it matter if ibm blessed it with your notebook or not. in some cases, ibm blessed it with your notebook but still didn't work. bummer. :>)

 

[gnubea]

I just upgraded my R40 BIOS version to 1.21 with the 1802 fix. It didn't fix my problem. I have a 802.11g card that I took out of ThinkPad T42.. T60H786 which worked fine with my Netgear router.

I am afraid if IBM was really dirty here that they prevented the remedy that is in some websites. (changing CMOS value not to check the card's validity) Quite possible. I am going to try the CMOS value change later and post the result here.