Marcos DioneThe worst part is that the system completely refuses to boot, I have no way of saying "OK, I don't care, keep booting".
Don' tell me the solution is going to be #coreboot / #libreboot...
_Sigh_, there's a #libreboot fork called #canoeboot, it's developed by the same dev, but they don't quite explain why this happened? At least my HW is supported by both...
OTOH, why would a WiFi card be incompatible with a 13yo #Lenovo T430?
> This method is also more risky, because one of the steps involves shorting two pins on the HDA (audio) chip, and if you do it wrong you could short the wrong thing by mistake; consequences could be blown fuses and/or fire, or just a dead #ThinkPad. Proceed at your own risk!
I think #libreboot is out of question.
Elena ``of Valhalla''@mdione ouch
on the X200 it was easier (we bought it exactly because libreboot was somewhat easy to put on it)
Joris Meys@JorisMeys @libreleah true, I forgot, thanks.
Valerie Norton@mdione This is not thrown by your BIOS locking down your computer? So maybe a "stop on all errors" set to "no" won't help? It looks like it could be some security thing.
It could be incompatible just because it isn't backwards compatible to whatever the latest standard the computer supports for the form factor is. Or something. I may just still be annoyed by AGP.
@valhikes there's no "stop on errors' in the UEFI/BIOS setup, but I noticed it's 'old' (seems like I never updated it). Will try that, thanks.
@mdione IIRC many thinkpad models have a *nice*¹ feature where they have a whitelist of devices they accept, and refuse to use anything else
I know it includes wifi cards
I don't know which Thinkpad models are affected
I know that the X200 had this feature, but installing libreboot wipes it, because that's the affected model I have
¹ I don't have words to describe that feature that are suitable to be uttered in polite company
NRoach44@mdione They (used to) use a pin on the mPCIe connector to control if the WiFi card or the BT module was transmitting, which is not a standard feature.