Circumventing ThinkPad's WiFi Card Whitelisting

Fri, 23 Dec 2016 20:10:45 +0000

What started as a simple Mini PCI Express WiFi card swap on a ThinkPad T61 notebook, turned into deploying a custom BIOS in order to get the card to work.

I love ThinkPad notebooks, they are workhorses that keep on going and going. I always keep my older models around for testing, and one of my old T61’s had an Intel 4965AGN card, that worked fine with Windows 10, until the release of the Anniversary / Redstone 1 update. After the RS1 update, WiFi would either fail to connect, or randomly drop out. The 4965AGN card is not supported by Intel on Win10, and the internet is full of problem reports of Win10 and 4965AGN cards.

Panasonic Lumix WiFi Disappoints

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:38:27 +0000

I’ve been a long time fan of Panasonic Lumix digital cameras, and I tend to update them every couple of years. My current cameras are the DMC-ZS20 for travel, and the DMC-ZS7 for pocket use.

My workflow typically entails taking lots of pictures, and then using a Transcend USB3 card reader and ImageIngester Pro to copy and rename them to my PC, and finally import them into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. This is a tedious process, but with the release of the Lumix WiFi capable handheld cameras, came an opportunity to make my life simpler by uploading directly using WiFi.

Wifi on Pieter Viljoen's Blog

Circumventing ThinkPad's WiFi Card Whitelisting

Panasonic Lumix WiFi Disappoints