middleton bios for t61 7665 cto

[lktt887]

is it possible to flash the middleton on the t61 7665 cto.

i haven't found any description yet. maybe the chipset is similar to another model?

if not, is it possble to deactivate the wifi-module whitelisting in another way?

thx in advance

[RealBlackStuff]

Yes you can.
http://ali.dj/blog/sata-ii-support-for- ... 61-x61-r61
Grab the first one starting with T61, T61p, good for ANY T61 or T61p.
The numbers later (7732 etc.) only apply to R61
There should have been a comma between T60p and R61

[lktt887]

thank you very much.

[lktt887]

nice, that worked! i made the whole flashing procedure without windows, just linux. this may be interesting for some of you. also, i think the procedure that i used is quite simpe. here is what i did (!!!AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! of course):

i made a usb-drive with freedos:
https://www.chtaube.eu/computers/freedos/bootable-usb/
download image and unpack and :

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dd if=/home/susi/downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-memstick-2-2048M.img of=/dev/sdz bs=512k

downloaded the middleton firmware for T61:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Middleton's_BIOS
unpacked the rar file and used an archive tool to access the 7luj27uc.iso .
mount the usbstick under /mnt/usb :

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mount /dev/sdz /mnt/usb

i made a directory under fdos:

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mkdir /mnt/usb/fdos/bu

copy the content of the iso to that folder.

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cp path-to-iso-image-content/* /mnt/usb/fdos/bu

reboot TP , press F12, choose usb stick. cd to folder :

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cd fdos

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cd bu

execute lcreflsh.bat (pls. check middleton manual for that , i needed to write my own flash.bat , because i have no battery)

NOTE 1:
i needed to turn on flash over lan (why? i dont know!) in the bios (config/network)

NOTE 2:
the first time i tried to flash the flash process seems to take 1.5 hours, i just restarted by pressing the power button , read all forum posts again , was sure i did right and tried again - this time with success.
i dont know what that could mean, but in the end it worked.

thx for all the help that i could find here!

[RealBlackStuff]

It's much simpler to burn the included .ISO to a CD, using e.g. imgburn.
That CD will be self-booting.

Not having a battery would be the only reason to do something like you did.
There are other ways, see here: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=106370 and here: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=112647

[lktt887]

i have no cd-drive. besides that, i really prefer booting from flash-drives (no need for burn-hard/software, no cd-roms to buy etc.).

for a day to day linux user the procedure described above is daily routine and therefore simple.

but thx for the info, as this thread may be useful for others , and more info is better

[Shredder11]

Each to their own I suppose but unless people are brand new to computers in the last few years, most tend to have an abundance of hard drives and optical drives strewn around over the years. Infact many like myself can construct entire PCs from just the loose old parts alone. I've still got plenty of old graphics cards of all types, and even old dialup modems gathering dust; I just love the old external ones with the rows of flashing lights! Anyway I appreciate the Linux based method that lktt887 shared with us, as that is something which will become ever more useful as time goes by.

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

Not having a battery would be the only reason to do something like you did.

Or if you don't feel like swapping in an optical drive or wasting a CD-R (or waste time digging around for that CD-RW that must be somewhere around here).

This is the way I always update the BIOS on Thinkpads these days. In Windows you can use the program Rufus to format a USB drive as a bootable DOS disc. After that, open the BIOS update ISO with 7Zip and extract the files to the thumb drive. Reboot into the thumb drive and run the batch file. It's not really any more complicated than burning a CD I don't think.