Comments on: Make a ThinkPad accept any MiniPCI Card - avoid 1802 error

By: Ehsan

Ehsan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:43:25 +0000

It worked on my T42p. But the ThinkVantage Access Connection can not recognize my wireless anymore although the Windows built-in wireless manager could easily connect me to my wireless network just perfect!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:51:16 +0000

I encountered similar problem that Lawren had.
However, I was able to use my USB floppy drive and boot from there to run no1802.com.
If the USB floppy drive does not work for you, you may want to try a directly attached floppy drive (in place of the CD/DVD drive slot) and go from there.

By: Macintosh

Macintosh — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:00:59 +0000

Hello !
With my R40, the “no-1802″ utility don’t work…

I find a CD iso file at
Works fine with my old ThinkPad R40 and a WLAN XG-650 low price…

By: svemir

svemir — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:00:01 +0000

Perhaps you can disable the network card before reboot, so that you can get into the DOS mode and run no-1802.

By: Lawren

Lawren — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:33:10 +0000

I have a T30 that started throwing the 1802 error on boot for no reason. The error has never happened before. The network card has never been changed and neither has the BIOS been flashed.

I have a USB floppy with a DOS boot disk and the computer STILL throws this error without letting me boot into DOS to run no-1802.com. I have set the USB floppy to be the 1st boot device and the network card (when it appears in the list - sometimes it does not - to be the last. Still no go. I am exceptionally frustrated. Any ideas?

By: svemir

svemir — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:12:51 +0000

According to the thinkwiki.org site linked above:

On the R32, T43, X41, X60 and probably others, the BIOS hacks and the “no-1802″ utility don’t work.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:16:23 +0000

Hi Rick and all!
Why do you think that this trick won’t work on an R32? Is it not worth trying it on that ThinkPad at all? Please respond, for I intend to try it on my R32.

By: viiiwonder

viiiwonder — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:59:34 +0000

Worked great on a t40, installed a new engenius emp-3602.

By: mckenzy

mckenzy — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:21:29 +0000

works flawlessly on my x31 2672-CPA
solid stuff. thank you so much…
Broadcom minipci

By: svemir

svemir — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:48:11 +0000

no1802.com will probably NOT work on X61. I am not aware of anything that works for X41 and above.