T530 with N-6300 boot failure 1802

Hi,
I got a nice T530 with built in 6205 Wireless LAN. As I tried to replace with N-6300 there comes the Hardware boot failure with error 1802 (incompatible PCI device). I just wonder as the N-6300 is in the compatibility list and the third antenna was also already built in. Is there any workaround to get this running?
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I picked up the N6300 with FRU 60Y3233 from http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1pc-Ultimate-N-6300-633ANHMW-FRU-60Y3233-Wireless-Card-for-IBM-Thinkpad-Intel...
The card works flawlessly out of the box and utilizes all 3 antennae.
Just in case someone was looking for an answer here.

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