17 Nov
2024
17 Nov
'24
5:59 p.m.
On 2024-11-17 15:51, Roger Heflin wrote:
I would be surprised if any of the laptop vendors did that. There is no profit motive for them to prevent other chipsets from working and it takes extra code.
There have been real cases of a laptop BIOS whitelisting certain wifi cards. It was documented and people even modified the BIOS firmware to allow the card they wanted to use.
A quick search got this as the top result: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/lup4lg/modding_the_bios_for_new_w...