T510 Bios with whitelist removed

[averagenokiauser]

Does anybody here have bios without wifi card whitelist for T510 saved? All links on other sites are dead.

[beesyrup]

Hey didn't you post on this reddit forum with a link to a MediaFire folder share 2 weeks ago?

https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comme ... nced_menu/

The username matches up, so I wanted to confirm with you if this worked or not. I'm currently on 1.45 from Lenovo, and I, too, would like to remove the whitelist.

[averagenokiauser]

Hey didn't you post on this reddit forum with a link to a MediaFire folder share 2 weeks ago?

https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comme ... nced_menu/

The username matches up, so I wanted to confirm with you if this worked or not. I'm currently on 1.45 from Lenovo, and I, too, would like to remove the whitelist.

Yep it works. I am writing this on T510 with Intel AX210 wifi card.

[banjo67xxx]

I see 2 versions there. One says slic and the other doesn't

Which did you use?

Can you run that from Wine on Linux, or do I need to search for my USB stick with Windows 7 on it?

[averagenokiauser]

I see 2 versions there. One says slic and the other doesn't

Which did you use?

Can you run that from Wine on Linux, or do I need to search for my USB stick with Windows 7 on it?

I used the slic one but both should work. The only difference is that the slic one writes something to the bios that automatically activates Windows 7 if i am right. For bios flashing VM won’t work so you need to install Windows 7 somewhere.

[TPFanatic]

This will make a fine addition to my collection.

[banjo67xxx]

I used the slic one but both should work.

Thanks. I tried that but it didn't work.

I found a Win7 partition in Grub and booted that, then ran the 64bit flash program, and set the advanced options as per the instructions and flashed the BIOS. However there was an instruction just before it rebooted, but I didn't have tie to read it.

Now the BIOS version is shown as

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          description: BIOS
          vendor: LENOVO
          physical id: 0
          version: 6MET92WW (1.52 )
          date: 09/26/2012
          size: 128KiB
          capacity: 8MiB
          capabilities: pci pcmcia pnp upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect edd int13floppy720 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb biosbootspecification

I've installed a Kingston KC600 SSD 256GB SATA3 mSATA into the WWAN slot, but the BIOS doesn't see any extra disks and Linux doesn't have /dev/nvme0 nor /dev/sdc

The BIOS didn't look like it had any more options than it had before.

Did the BIOS not flash correctly or is that mSATA isn't supported in the WWAN slot. I've seen someone else got a T-series working using M.2 2242 with B+M key in the WWAN slot, would that work better?

[TPFanatic]

This is T510, so that slot is not actually mSATA. Rather it is a standard mPCIE+USB slot.

You can acquire something like this: MPCIE to NVME adapter
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004641053693.html
Search "aliexpress mpcie to nvme adapter"

then you can install any cheap 2230 or 2242 NVME SSD into that adapter.

Note that the laptop won't know how to boot from it, but OS can use it as storage, cache, swap, whatever.

Another option is to use the Expresscard slot for an NVME SSD, like this: Expresscard to NVME adaper
https://www.ebay.com/itm/387774225360
Search "expresscard to nvme adapter"

Similarly to the above solution, the laptop won't know how to boot from it, but OS can use it as storage, cache, swap, whatever.

The only other option to add a second SATA drive, which the laptop knows how to boot from, is to use an "Ultrabay" drive adapter that replaces the Optical Drive, like this: Ultrabay HDD adapter
https://www.ebay.com/itm/142683643028
Search "thinkpad t510 ultrabay drive adapter"

Unlike the other solutions, the laptop CAN boot from an Ultrabay HDD adapter, the same way it would boot off a CD or DVD in a SATA / Serial Optical Drive, as these are natively supported logical SATA devices.

[averagenokiauser]

I used the slic one but both should work.

Thanks. I tried that but it didn't work.

I found a Win7 partition in Grub and booted that, then ran the 64bit flash program, and set the advanced options as per the instructions and flashed the BIOS. However there was an instruction just before it rebooted, but I didn't have tie to read it.

Now the BIOS version is shown as

Code: Select all

          description: BIOS
          vendor: LENOVO
          physical id: 0
          version: 6MET92WW (1.52 )
          date: 09/26/2012
          size: 128KiB
          capacity: 8MiB
          capabilities: pci pcmcia pnp upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect edd int13floppy720 
int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb biosbootspecification

I've installed a Kingston KC600 SSD 256GB SATA3 mSATA into the WWAN slot, but the BIOS doesn't see any extra disks and Linux doesn't have /dev/nvme0 nor /dev/sdc

The BIOS didn't look like it had any more options than it had before.

Did the BIOS not flash correctly or is that mSATA isn't supported in the WWAN slot. I've seen someone else got a T-series working using M.2 2242 with B+M key in the WWAN slot, would that work better?

These just remove the whitelist and they do not add any other options so i think it flashed successfully. I guess you can try putting some unsupported WiFi card in it and see if it works.

[banjo67xxx]

This is T510, so that slot is not actually mSATA. Rather it is a standard mPCIE+USB slot.

You can acquire something like this: MPCIE to NVME adapter
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004641053693.html
Search "aliexpress mpcie to nvme adapter"

then you can install any cheap 2230 or 2242 NVME SSD into that adapter.

Thanks. I've ordered one.

Just wondering how this person on Reddit managed to get an M.2 2242 B+M working directly in the WWAN slot
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comme ... d_finding/

Is the T580 WWAN slot different to the T510 WWAN slot?

[TPFanatic]

the t510 wan slot uses the old-style physical slot with two screw posts in the corners, whereas t580 uses the new "ngff" (next-gen-form-factor) style slot that is narrower with one screw post in the center. that is why an adaptation would be required for t510, which uses the old-style, so it can fit the NVMEs which are built for the new-style.

a whitelist-removed BIOS is needed first, since lenovo never intended anything except supported broadband cards to go in that slot, and the laptop will throw a tantrum if the whitelist is there.

[axur-delmeria]

Just wondering how this person on Reddit managed to get an M.2 2242 B+M working directly in the WWAN slot
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comme ... d_finding/

Is the T580 WWAN slot different to the T510 WWAN slot?

Yes, the connectors are different:



Notice that the gold-colored connectors at the top edge are of different size M.2 and mSATA/miniPCIe

The T580 WWAN slot is M.2 2242 B-key, and will fit a M.2 2242 B+M key NVMe SSD. An M.2 2242 B+M key SATA SSD will fit but won't work (as already mentioned in your Reddit link), because the T580 WWAN slot only has PCIe 3.0 and USB 3.0 signals wired in.

The T510 WWAN slot has the older mini-PCIe connector. It has PCIe 2.0 x1 and USB 2.0 signals wired it. A mSATA SSD will fit but will not work due to the absence of SATA signals in the connector. Only the T520 and T530 generations have support for mSATA SSDs.

But since the T510 WWAN slot is also PCIe (although slower), an NVMe SSD (which uses PCIe signals) can be made to work with the proper adapter (and enough space to actually fit inside the laptop).