Once upon a time, Roger Heflin <rogerhef...@gmail.com> said: > I would be surprised if any of the laptop vendors did that. There is > no profit motive for them to prevent other chipsets from working and > it takes extra code.
It's definitely something some have done, probably to "limit support costs" (or really, limit customer choices in replacement parts to marked-up vendor hardware). I know for example that Thinkpads at one point would only activate Thinkpad wifi cards, based on PCI ID (not sure if they still do this). -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
