{"id":1394,"date":"2016-12-12T00:58:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T05:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/brd\/wp\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2021-09-25T12:38:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T16:38:10","slug":"just-cant-stand-lenovo-any-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/2016\/12\/12\/just-cant-stand-lenovo-any-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Just can&#8217;t stand Lenovo any longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I did it while the PC was hibernating (I know&#8230; testing in production and all that.) The OS recognized it immediately upon coming back up.<\/p>\n<p>Later on however when I went to restart the thing, I received a cold warning from Lenovo. The apparently well-known <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.lenovo.com\/t5\/forums\/v3_1\/forumtopicpage\/board-id\/Special_Interest_General\/thread-id\/15854\/page\/19\">1802 Error<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t want you to.<\/p>\n<p>If I wanted to be restricted and cave and operate only according to a manufacturer&#8217;s demands, I would use Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Between this, the Superfish incident, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/brd\/wp\/index.php\/2015\/03\/01\/lenovo-messed-up-with-superfish-on-laptops-but-the-yoga-2-tablet-has-the-next-big-lenovo-screw-up\/\">pre-installed malware that came on TWO Lenovo Yogas<\/a>, I am again ruling out Lenovo from ever being part of my deployments again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; testing in production and all that.) The OS recognized it immediately upon &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,10],"tags":[322,323,223,224,247,321,324,325],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greed","category-tech","tag-322","tag-hardware","tag-lenovo","tag-malware","tag-network","tag-superfish","tag-wlan","tag-wwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}