Disabling Biometric and Sierra

[taichi]

On my T60P I never use the Biometric Fingerprint Reader nor the Sierra Wireless Modem, and have disabled both in device manager. When I run Thinkvantage Toolbox I'm informed that disabling these may cause the computer not to work properly. Is this true? If so, can I disable them harmlessly in BIOS?

Thanks

[ajkula66]

Hogwash.

I've been disabling FPR on all of our ThinkPads since the first T42p that my wife had 6-7 years ago, always in BIOS, never an issue.

As for WWAN, I've actually used it a few times, but see absolutely no reason why disabling it would affect anything else...

My $0.02 only...

[taichi]

Hogwash.

I've been disabling FPR on all of our ThinkPads since the first T42p that my wife had 6-7 years ago, always in BIOS, never an issue.

As for WWAN, I've actually used it a few times, but see absolutely no reason why disabling it would affect anything else...

My $0.02 only...

Would you disable WWAN in BIOS as well?

Is it fairly self explanatory where those devices are in the BIOS?

Funny icon, that shrugging face.

Thanks

[ajkula66]

FPR is under Security.

Don't have anything with WWAN around me right now, but it should be under Configuration>Network

[Peak2Peak]

Can confirm with George's statement - WWAN device can be disabled/enabled in BIOS under: Configuration > Network > Internal Wireless WWAN Device

[RealBlackStuff]

Go play with this BIOS simulator for T60/T60p: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail. ... MIGR-64884
You can do/find everything in there without endangering your laptop.

[taichi]

Thanks, everyone, for your responses.

Do most of you use WWAN?

I'm under the impression that these were designed for one particular Network.

Update:

Thanks, RBS, for the BIOS simulator link. I've made changes before in BIOS, but it was useful to go in and see the specific entries. One thing...the simulator doesn't allow you to return to "desktop". So I assume that after making each change I use F10, and then hit F10 again at the end to exit BIOS, or would I use ESC?

[ajkula66]

F10 - save and exit