Re: IdeaPad Y580 Laptop - 59359513 - Dawn Gray

Eitan Adler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <CAF6rxgnVrHOzsVo1nyxez6-3nPRFMoYtPNV3zK8CWBMfjp-YaA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2 December 2012 10:17, Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some Lenovo/Thinkpad BIOS implementations whitelist wireless cards, only
> working with "approved" wireless cards.  That also makes it more difficult
> and expensive to replace the included card with an Atheros.

This isn't critical *if and only if* the intel card works. should I
expect problems?

> Can the NVidia graphics be disabled in the BIOS so the Intel graphics can be
> used alone?

No clue - I don't own it ;(

> Thinkpad 420/520 did not want to boot from GPT disks.  The BIOS was probably
> at fault, misidentifying GPT partitioning.  That may have been fixed by now.

I'll deal if I know this is coming :)

-- 
Eitan Adler
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