ThinkPad W510 Wifi - Whitelist, Replacement Cards..
Hey there,
i am planing to switch to trisquel because i want to support free software and have a possibly nsa-free system. I tried trisquel a couple of minutes ago and sadly my wifi doesn't work.
To be honest, that's what i anticipated because it is always the same when i try to use completely free operating Systems.
I think i may have to relpace my PCIE Wifi Card with something more compatible, like a:
RealTek RTL8188EE Wifi Card
But i have read that there is a "whitelist" in my bios which tries to keep me from replacing this wifi card. Sadly, there is no libreboot/ custom-bios at the moment to remove that nasty "defective by desgin"-piece-of-garbage..
Any suggestions?
Maybe buy a USB-Wifi-Adapter like this:
Realtek RTL8188cus ?
I found this list very helpful:
https://h-node.org/wifi/catalogue/en
This is my current WiFi-PCIE:
sudo lshw -C network
*-network
Beschreibung: Ethernet interface
Produkt: 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection
Hersteller: Intel Corporation
Physische ID: 19
Bus-Informationen: pci@0000:00:19.0
Logischer Name: enp0s25
Version: 06
Seriennummer:
Kapazität: 1Gbit/s
Breite: 32 bits
Takt: 33MHz
Fähigkeiten: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
Konfiguration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=3.2.6-k firmware=0.12-1 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
Ressourcen: irq:37 memory:f2600000-f261ffff memory:f2625000-f2625fff ioport:1820(Größe=32)
*-network
Beschreibung: Kabellose Verbindung
Produkt: Centrino Advanced-N 6200
Hersteller: Intel Corporation
Physische ID: 0
Bus-Informationen: pci@0000:03:00.0
Logischer Name: wlp3s0
Version: 3e
Seriennummer: 18:3d:a2:a6:10:3c
Breite: 64 bits
Takt: 33MHz
Fähigkeiten: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
Konfiguration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=4.15.0-43-generic firmware=9.221.4.1 build 25532 ip=192.168.178.45 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
Ressourcen: irq:41 memory:f2000000-f2001fff
Is there any chance to make it work?