Once upon a time, Roger Heflin <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
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