No BIOS Wi-Fi whitelist since .50 series ?

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No BIOS Wi-Fi whitelist since .50 series ?

#1 Post by Puppy » Fri Feb 05, 2016 3:20 am

I found interesing post by Mark from Lenovo https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X ... rue#M68284

Yes, I think I replied to some comments over on Lenovoblogs where customers were asking about whitelists.

I confirmed at the time that the X250 generation of ThinkPads should not have a WIFI whitelist as before. WWAN cards may still have whitelists.

I will check again to make sure nothing has changed


Is Lenovo finally getting rid of this unwanted feature ?
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Re: No BIOS Wi-Fi whitelist since .50 series ?

#2 Post by hhhd1 » Fri Feb 05, 2016 3:08 pm

they have added LCD whitelist since the .50 series, which is much more horrible.
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Re: No BIOS Wi-Fi whitelist since .50 series ?

#3 Post by Ibthink » Sat Feb 06, 2016 8:49 am

No, there still is a WWAN / WLAN white-list.
hhhd1 wrote:they have added LCD whitelist since the .50 series, which is much more horrible.
Source?
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Re: No BIOS Wi-Fi whitelist since .50 series ?

#4 Post by hhhd1 » Sat Feb 06, 2016 5:14 pm

Ibthink wrote:
hhhd1 wrote:they have added LCD whitelist since the .50 series, which is much more horrible.
Source?
There is a thread over at notebookreview, where users can not adjust brightness when using any LCD that is not an official Lenovo FRU.
This limitation was not present in the .40 series.
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