On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, John Yates wrote:
Ha! I have purchased mini WiFi cards in the past and stuck them in laptops but those have always been the card sanctioned by the laptop's manufacturer. I guess it had not occurred to me that WiFi cards must conform to some standardized interface and hence be at least moderately interchangeable.
Most of the cards is actually mini pci-express, so it's definitely a standard. On for instance Lenovo laptops, then what PCI-E cards can be put into them is checked by the BIOS, and there are people that modify their BIOS to remove this bootup check to be able to put non-sanctioned cards into the laptop.
Vendors tend to blame for instance FCC for the "sanctioned card"-lock, but...
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