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by throwmeup123 1252 days ago
Or just kill the wifi blacklist and make it hackintosh ready. ;]
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eric__cartman 1252 days ago
Close, it was to kill the stupid wifi blacklist but just to upgrade the wireless n card with an ac one I had lying around form a broken machine.
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counttheforks 1252 days ago
What is this referring to? What wifi blacklist?
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Nextgrid 1252 days ago
Some laptops (notably Thinkpads) enforce a whitelist of PCI IDs for wireless cards - an "unapproved" card will display a warning in the firmware and won't be visible by the OS.

The excuse if I remember right is FCC compliance, but I call BS given that most other manufacturers successfully get away without it.

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peter_d_sherman 1252 days ago
That is interesting... I never knew that until now...

Are there any other defining features of the cards that are accepted or the cards that are rejected other than PCI ID? (i.e., Manufacturer, Chipset, MAC, Country Of Origin, Year Manufactured, ?, ???)

Also (and I say this not to you, but to the Internet at large) --

If every PCI ID belongs to a Manufacturer (a company -- and they do!), and some companies cards are accepted and other companies cards are rejected, then...

Wouldn't rejecting some manufacturers Wi-Fi cards -- be in conflict with Federal Trade Commission Antitrust regulations?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law

...In other words, while IBM or Lenovo, or whoever makes the Thinkpad these days -- while they would be complying wtih FCC regulations...

Wouldn't they also simultaneously be in conflict with FTC Antitrust regulations?

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Gordonjcp 1252 days ago
What about the vast majority of us who don't care what the atavistic FCC say?
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