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Ask HN: how to mod my x230 Lenovo bios myself to remove the WiFi card whitelist?

1 pointsby adetrestover 6 years ago
I have a Lenovo x230 that I love very dearly. It&#x27;s the perfect mix of sobriety, reparability, low price, durability.<p>However, the WiFi is slow. So I put an ac card in it and flashed coreboot. The issue is that coreboot runs into trouble with most USB3 hard drive enclosures I have, where the Lenovo bios doesn&#x27;t.<p>I&#x27;d like to revert to the Lenovo bios while the USB3 situation is problematic with coreboot, but to do that and keep using my aftermarket WiFi card, I need a modified bios that will skip the WiFi card whitelist check.<p>Now some users on the bios mod forums offer to do the mod for a fee, but I&#x27;d rather learn how to do it myself so I don&#x27;t depend on others doing it for me every time there is a bios update. Unfortunately, there are no explanations I could find online on how to do it.<p>So, where would I start if I wanted to learn how do to it myself and share the method with others once I figured it out?

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