"It never gets any easier!"
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The worst part is that the system completely refuses to boot, I have no way of saying "OK, I don't care, keep booting".
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Don' tell me the solution is going to be #coreboot / #libreboot...
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_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?
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@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
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@valhalla I'm ot polite company, and I accept italian versions for my stash :)
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@mdione I think that “bastardata” can start to describe the feature and “pezzi di merda” is a good description of the people who decided to do it :D -
> 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.
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@mdione ouch
on the X200 it was easier (we bought it exactly because libreboot was somewhat easy to put on it)
