On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 09:16:40AM -0700, Catacombs wrote: > 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? >
If you install an unsupported (non Intel) WiFi adapter without clearing the whitelist your Lenovo will not boot. You will see a message telling you to remove the unsupported adapter. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20200418015029.GA23252%40thirdeyesecurity.org.
