As I read on the git hub Skulls page.  There is an individual who bricked his 
Lenovo X230 with trying to install CoreBoot.  and can not reinstall his back up 
of his original BIOS/EFI.  Not a lot of advice on that board.  

Day before yesterday I put a spinning hard drive into my X230 to experiment 
with.  For any of you not familiar with the physical layout of an X230, 
replacing the drive is super easy.  One screw removes the plate covering drive. 
 Drive slides out, has soft rubber slides that pop off either side of drive.  
Put them on replacement drive.  Slide it in. Put side plate on.  Tighten down 
screw.      

I experimented by installing the Pure OS.  I have an iPhone, on which I am 
typing this, which has unlimited data.  And came with a gift of ten GBs 
HotSpot.  I plugged the cable between the iPhone and X230 pure USB port to use 
data.  Pure is like Debian in that it is FOSS and does not have driver for the 
already installed Intel Wireless.  I spent several hours trying to get a Real 
Tek USB WiFi to install.   Didn’t work for me. So I installed QUBES onto the 
spinning drive.  Works.  

Point of all this being. If I could keep the Intel Management Engine from from 
phoning home.  And use the Wireless of my choice. I might not itch so much to 
install Core Boot Skulls.   I know that Qubes will let me see connections with 
a wireless dongle.  Maybe I should just disable driver for Intel WiFi, and just 
toddle along.  I am guessing that would be in the Xen Hypervisor. 

So my question is how do I disable the Intel WiFi driver.  Might easier to just 
open back of computer and remove chip.    Maybe the Intel Whitelist of WiFi is 
just a hoax. I should just try the Atheros chip.  Probably lead to two hours of 
re installing QUBES.  Any thoughts?

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