{"id":2409,"date":"2016-12-07T14:54:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2016-12-07T14:54:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:54:59","slug":"lenovo-thinkpad-t420-removing-whitelist-from-bios-1-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2016\/12\/lenovo-thinkpad-t420-removing-whitelist-from-bios-1-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo Thinkpad T420 &#8211; Removing Whitelist from BIOS 1.49"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to install an Intel 7260-N WiFi PCIe card into my T420.  For this to work, I had to flash a modified BIOS that removes the hardware whitelist.  Unfortunately, I had just upgraded to BIOS 1.49, which ostensibly cannot be downgraded.<\/p>\n<p>The solution was to manually call winflash using the <tt>sv<\/tt> and <tt>sd<\/tt> flags:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"DOS\">\r\nwinflash.exe \/sv \/sd 83ET76WW\\$01C8000.FL1\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The above command assumes that you&#8217;re in the <tt>bios_mod<\/tt> folder, which is contained in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkwiki.org\/wiki\/Custom_BIOS\">modified BIOS archive on ThinkWiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to install an Intel 7260-N WiFi PCIe card into my T420. For this to work, I had to flash a modified BIOS that removes the hardware whitelist. Unfortunately, I had just upgraded to BIOS 1.49, which ostensibly cannot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2016\/12\/lenovo-thinkpad-t420-removing-whitelist-from-bios-1-49\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[309,310],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-t420","tag-thinkpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}