[ltp] minipci card and T43
Alejandro Bonilla
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:11:58 -0600
> I bought a intel oem minipci card with a pci-id 8086:4220/8086:2701.
> Apparently this is not in thinkpad t43 bios whitelist, so the computer
> won't boot. I tried that trick to change a control bit in the CMOS,
> but it didn't work. T43 now seems to have 242 Bytes in the CMOS
> instead of 128 bytes in previous models, although I am not certain on
> this.
>
> Does anyone know if there's a bit in T43 CMOS to disable minipci ID
> check? and the offset of that bit perhaps? Thanks a lot.
>
> Lilong
Change the EEPROM to have the data of another card. Then it will work.
There was a thread in ipw2100-devel some time ago.
.Alejandro