I have a Lenovo G500 (NOT the 's') and have just ordered an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 to replace the OEM Broadcom 802.11n card.
From my short time of trying to learn about the whitelist, it appears as though there are 2 options:
1) Hack the bios to change the Hardware ID for the current approved card to that of the new card. The downside is that I'll be in the same boat if I ever have to replace that card again.
2) Hack the bios to remove the whitelist check (skip the "halt on unauthorized hardware" message)?
Seems like option #2 really is the best. I attempted to learn how to do the hack myself but can't seem to find the specifics that match the currently released bios (which is 4 mb)
So it sounds like simply pointing to the original BIOS update from Lenovo is all that is needed? If that is the case then the link is:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/download...D=DS036474
...which is version 2.01 (78cn23ww.exe)
According to the BIOS, the brand is Lenovo and I believe the model number is CB23281096
Unless there is more I'm supposed to do?
From my short time of trying to learn about the whitelist, it appears as though there are 2 options:
1) Hack the bios to change the Hardware ID for the current approved card to that of the new card. The downside is that I'll be in the same boat if I ever have to replace that card again.
2) Hack the bios to remove the whitelist check (skip the "halt on unauthorized hardware" message)?
Seems like option #2 really is the best. I attempted to learn how to do the hack myself but can't seem to find the specifics that match the currently released bios (which is 4 mb)
So it sounds like simply pointing to the original BIOS update from Lenovo is all that is needed? If that is the case then the link is:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/download...D=DS036474
...which is version 2.01 (78cn23ww.exe)
According to the BIOS, the brand is Lenovo and I believe the model number is CB23281096
Unless there is more I'm supposed to do?