Another personal hit against Lenovo has shown up. I recently needed to replace the WLAN card in one of my laptops. I grabbed an older Intel-2230 off the shelf and put it in.
I did it while the PC was hibernating (I know… testing in production and all that.) The OS recognized it immediately upon coming back up.
Later on however when I went to restart the thing, I received a cold warning from Lenovo. The apparently well-known 1802 Error.
In short the 1802 error means only a very specific set of add-ons such as WLAN, WWAN, and HDDs are whitelisted. You are not allowed to use something that Lenovo doesn’t want you to.
If I wanted to be restricted and cave and operate only according to a manufacturer’s demands, I would use Apple.
Between this, the Superfish incident, and the pre-installed malware that came on TWO Lenovo Yogas, I am again ruling out Lenovo from ever being part of my deployments again.