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mobile data doesn't work on lenovo x12 detachable gen 2

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I ordered a Thinkpad X12 Detachable gen 2 with mobile data.  It comes with Windows.  My plan was to confirm operation of the mobile data with Windows, and then get it working with linux. I went through the long Windows setup process.  I got to a point where I had a desktop session.  Various Lenovo shitwares were still popping up.   In the bottom-right were a panoply of little boxes giving conflicting advice on whether restarts were required or forbidden.  The consensus seemed to be that restarts were required.  But a box apparently related to mobile data, the feature of interest, disagreed. Eventually I did reboot it, and Windows spent around half an hour doing "updates".  How do product managers think this is acceptable? When it came back I inserted a (nano) SIM via the side tray.  Windows detected it, and put up an encouraging message saying it was setting it up.  This had a progress bar which increased slowly.  At the end, n...