[Cialug] Hardware stuff

[Nathan C. Smith]

It should say on the bottom or indicate from the model number what wireless network the card or WWAN will work with.  Otherwise you can use the model number and look it up on the lenovo web site.

The Lenovo web site also has a batter recall lookup based on the serial number on the battery.  You can just google lenovo battery recall and it should come up.

-Nate 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Josh More
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 10:31 AM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Subject: [Cialug] Hardware stuff
> 
> A lot of you are far better at the hardware side of things 
> than I am, so I figure that a couple questions to the list 
> will probably save me hours of trying things and getting them wrong.
> 
> Situation:  I have a used IBM Thinkpad X60 that I am 
> rebuilding with Linux.
> 
> 1) There seems to be a built-in cellular card.  How do I 
> determine which of the many cell providers to talk to about 
> what it would take to activate it?
> 
> 2) It has a battery that MAY be impacted by the Sony battery 
> recall way back when, but the IBM tool that autodetermines 
> that is Windows-only.  I suppose I could figure out how to 
> make a Windows boot disk to run the tool, but I was hoping 
> that someone might know of a detailed list that I can compare 
> serial numbers against.
> 
> 
> Anyone have any advice here?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC
>  morej at alliancetechnologies.net
>  515-245-7701
> 
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