realtek 8188ce not configured

2012-05-30 Thread patrick keshishian 
Hi misc@,

Lenovo won't let me replace the Realtek 8188CE mini-pci card that came
with it with another. The hardware refuses to boot with an
unauthorized network card detected or somesuch error (brilliant!).

What are the chances of getting this card working with obsd? :)

--patrick


OpenBSD 5.1-current (GENERIC) #242: Sun May 20 10:35:39 MDT 2012
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
real mem = 3866689536 (3687MB)
avail mem = 3741433856 (3568MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.6 @ 0xf9ba0 (60 entries)
bios0: vendor LENOVO version 8FET32WW (1.16 ) date 11/03/2011
bios0: LENOVO 06112EU
acpi0 at bios0: rev 2
acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SLIC HPET APIC MCFG UEFI UEFI SSDT SSDT UEFI
acpi0: wakeup devices PB4_(S4) PB5_(S4) PB6_(S4) PB7_(S4) OHC1(S3)
OHC2(S3) EHC2(S3) OHC3(S3) EHC3(S3) OHC4(S3) SBAZ(S4) GEC_(S4)
P2P_(S5) SPB0(S4) SPB1(S4) SPB2(S4) SPB3(S4) LID_(S4)
acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 32 bits
acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318180 Hz
acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee0: PC-AT compat
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: AMD E-350 Processor, 1597.55 MHz
cpu0: 
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,MWAIT,SSSE3,CX16,POPCNT,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,LONG,LAHF,CMPLEG,SVM,EAPICSP,AMCR8,ABM,SSE4A,MASSE,3DNOWP,IBS,SKINIT
cpu0: 32KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 32KB 64b/line 8-way D-cache, 512KB
64b/line 16-way L2 cache
cpu0: 8 4MB entries fully associative
cpu0: DTLB 40 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
cpu0: apic clock running at 199MHz
cpu at mainbus0: not configured
ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 2 pa 0xfec0, version 21, 24 pins
ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 2
acpimcfg0 at acpi0 addr 0xf800, bus 0-31
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus -1 (PB4_)
acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus -1 (PB5_)
acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 1 (PB6_)
acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus -1 (PB7_)
acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 2 (P2P_)
acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus 3 (SPB0)
acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus 4 (SPB1)
acpiprt8 at acpi0: bus -1 (SPB2)
acpiprt9 at acpi0: bus -1 (SPB3)
acpiec0 at acpi0
acpicpu0 at acpi0: C2, PSS
acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature is 92 degC
acpibtn0 at acpi0: PWRB
acpibtn1 at acpi0: SLPB
acpithinkpad0 at acpi0
acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online
acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT1 model 42T4785 serial  3355 type LION oem SANYO
acpibtn2 at acpi0: LID_
cpu0: 1597 MHz: speeds: 1600 1280 800 MHz
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 AMD AMD64 14h Host rev 0x00
vga1 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 ATI Radeon HD 6310 rev 0x00
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
azalia0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 ATI Radeon HD 6310 HD Audio rev 0x00: msi
azalia0: no supported codecs
ppb0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 AMD AMD64 14h PCIE rev 0x00: msi
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
re0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 Realtek 8168 rev 0x03: RTL8168D/8111D
(0x2800), apic 2 int 18, address e8:9a:8f:66:06:38
rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 2
ahci0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 ATI SBx00 SATA rev 0x00: apic 2 int
19, AHCI 1.2
scsibus0 at ahci0: 32 targets
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: ATA, TOSHIBA MK2555GS, FG00 SCSI3
0/direct fixed naa.5391c6887a53
sd0: 238475MB, 512 bytes/sector, 488397168 sectors
ohci0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 ATI SB700 USB rev 0x00: apic 2 int
18, version 1.0, legacy support
ehci0 at pci0 dev 18 function 2 ATI SB700 USB2 rev 0x00: apic 2 int 17
usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0 at usb0 ATI EHCI root hub rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
ohci1 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 ATI SB700 USB rev 0x00: apic 2 int
18, version 1.0, legacy support
ehci1 at pci0 dev 19 function 2 ATI SB700 USB2 rev 0x00: apic 2 int 17
usb1 at ehci1: USB revision 2.0
uhub1 at usb1 ATI EHCI root hub rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
piixpm0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 ATI SBx00 SMBus rev 0x42: polling
iic0 at piixpm0
spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 2GB DDR3 SDRAM PC3-10600 SO-DIMM
spdmem1 at iic0 addr 0x51: 2GB DDR3 SDRAM PC3-10600 SO-DIMM
azalia1 at pci0 dev 20 function 2 ATI SBx00 HD Audio rev 0x40: apic 2 int 16
azalia1: codecs: Conexant/0x5066
audio0 at azalia1
pcib0 at pci0 dev 20 function 3 ATI SB700 ISA rev 0x40
ppb1 at pci0 dev 20 function 4 ATI SB600 PCI rev 0x40
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
ppb2 at pci0 dev 21 function 0 ATI SB800 PCIE rev 0x00
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
ppb3 at pci0 dev 21 function 1 ATI SB800 PCIE rev 0x00: msi
pci4 at ppb3 bus 4
Realtek 8188CE rev 0x01 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 not configured
pchb1 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 AMD AMD64 14h Link Cfg rev 0x43
pchb2 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 AMD AMD64 14h Address Map rev 0x00
pchb3 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 AMD AMD64 14h DRAM Cfg rev 0x00
km0 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 AMD AMD64 14h Misc Cfg rev 0x00
pchb4 at pci0 dev 24 function 4 AMD AMD64 14h CPU Power rev 0x00
pchb5 at pci0 dev 24 function 5 AMD AMD64 14h Reserved rev 0x00
pchb6 at pci0 dev 24 function 6 AMD AMD64 14h NB Power rev 0x00
pchb7 at pci0 dev 24

Re: realtek 8188ce not configured

2012-05-30 Thread Fred Crowson 
On 30 May 2012 21:45, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi misc@,

 Lenovo won't let me replace the Realtek 8188CE mini-pci card that came
 with it with another. The hardware refuses to boot with an
 unauthorized network card detected or somesuch error (brilliant!).

 What are the chances of getting this card working with obsd? :)

 --patrick

Would  the tpwireless package help?

Fred

Re: realtek 8188ce not configured

2012-05-30 Thread patrick keshishian 
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Fred Crowson fred.crow...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 30 May 2012 21:45, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi misc@,

 Lenovo won't let me replace the Realtek 8188CE mini-pci card that came
 with it with another. The hardware refuses to boot with an
 unauthorized network card detected or somesuch error (brilliant!).

 What are the chances of getting this card working with obsd? :)

 --patrick

 Would  the tpwireless package help?

Interesting! ... thanks for the tip. I'll just have to work around
this with a USB stick install or something:

$ make extract
===  tpwireless-0.2   is only for i386, not amd64 .

--patrick

Re: realtek 8188ce not configured

2012-05-30 Thread Theo de Raadt 
 On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Fred Crowson fred.crow...@gmail.com wrote:
  On 30 May 2012 21:45, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi misc@,
 
  Lenovo won't let me replace the Realtek 8188CE mini-pci card that came
  with it with another. The hardware refuses to boot with an
  unauthorized network card detected or somesuch error (brilliant!).
 
  What are the chances of getting this card working with obsd? :)
 
  --patrick
 
  Would  the tpwireless package help?
 
 Interesting! ... thanks for the tip. I'll just have to work around
 this with a USB stick install or something:
 
 $ make extract
 ===  tpwireless-0.2   is only for i386, not amd64 .

I would be really surprised to see this work on a very modern thinkpad.

However, in the past there were generation gaps.  It would work one
thinkpad, then not work on the next few, then work again on some others
later on...  Kind of as if their check was added in different places.

What they are doing is illegal, yet it is impossible to after the
monster companies now.

Re: realtek 8188ce not configured

2012-05-30 Thread Peter Laufenberg 
Lenovo won't let me replace the Realtek 8188CE mini-pci card that came
with it with another. The hardware refuses to boot with an
unauthorized network card detected or somesuch error (brilliant!).

What are the chances of getting this card working with obsd? :)

bios-mods.com has high-wire patches to bypass the whitelist, thinkwiki.org a 
couple of less risky tricks but I'd just return the laptop. Some Lenovos have 
the closed-source Express Gate BIOS-level remote desktop, w/ GPU encoding so 
your system load won't even blink.

-- p

Re: realtek 8188ce not configured

2012-05-30 Thread Theo de Raadt 
 Lenovo won't let me replace the Realtek 8188CE mini-pci card that came
 with it with another. The hardware refuses to boot with an
 unauthorized network card detected or somesuch error (brilliant!).
 
 What are the chances of getting this card working with obsd? :)
 
 bios-mods.com has high-wire patches to bypass the whitelist, thinkwiki.org a 
 couple of less risky tricks but I'd just return the laptop. Some Lenovos have 
 the closed-source Express Gate BIOS-level remote desktop, w/ GPU encoding 
 so your system load won't even blink.

Indeed, I think returning such hardware is the best approach.

That is the only option a consumer has left.