Upgrading your IBM Thinkpad's miniPCI Wireless Card: unauthorized network card

[bigfreak]

Yesterday, I upgraded the wireless card that came in my IBM Thinkpad G40. It came with an 802.11B and because I transfer a bunch of stuff over my wireless 802.11G at home, I really wanted to speed stuff up. I also didn't want to have a card hanging out the PCMCIA slot.

Changing a miniPCI card is really not that hard. I opened the laptop, swapped cards and figured I'd just boot it up with the screws out just in case. I'm glad I did because right after the BIOS screen, I got this message:

1802 Unauthorized network card is plugged in. Power off and remove the Mini PCI network card.

I removed the card and did a little google searching:

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/thinkpad/wireless.html

The 18 byte cmos hack on that page did the job for me.

If you are thinking about putting a new internal wireless card in your thinkpad and you've got one of these models:

A30, A31, G40, R32, R40, R50, R51, T30, T40, T41, X30, X31, X40

you need to go check out that site, download the little dos app and create a dos boot disk ( www.bootdisk.com ).

It's an extra step I didn't plan for and a solution I was very greatful to find.

Thought I'd share,
bigfreak

[wizkid1984]

Now i just got a Mini wireless card form china and that sent me a file called jmp1802 that has to be ran in dos mode useing a dos boot disk or cd to run the file instead of messing about with the bios this file does it all by all i mean removing the message "1802: non-authorised Mini-PCI wireless card please remove card" and booting into windows and loading the drivers for my non-authorised Mini-PCI wireless card. if anyone needs the file please email me dalyheard2007@googlemail.com. if you google the filename there are only chinese websites that host the file but they do charge for it. i just wanted u people to know that there is no need to play with the bios

[wifiuser2007]

Can you please send me this utility. I am facing the same issue.

[lnthai2002]

Is it easy to put back the screws for ibm laptop? I heard that they put some special coasting on the screws so that it can be used only once. Also I dont have a torque screw driver so i dont know if it possible to do it by hand.