[ltp] Re: minipci card and T43

Joshua Kwan linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:33:45 -0700


Lilong Li wrote:
> 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.

Were you looking at this page?
http://www.livejournal.com/~mjg59/33502.html

Perhaps you should email him directly if it doesn't work and see if he
can provide you any pointers.

-- 
Joshua Kwan