Two inter-related arguments for switching to Coreboot so that one can replace an Intel wireless card with another card:
1. Lenovo BIOS generally has a small whitelist of WiFi cards that work and block all others. 2. Presumably the reason for this whitelist is support for AMT “out of band and silent” organizational inventory, configuration and tracking of laptops regardless of what OS it is running (e.g. even after wipe). The BIOS only has drivers for specific intel WiFi and Ethernet chipsets and can only “phone home” using known networking hardware. If you avoid the in-built Ethernet and the factory specified WiFi cards, it is much more difficult to leverage AMT and similar technologies for remote control and tracking of a device. Not impossible but more difficult. B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/601ce3bf-4b86-4613-8711-041ad4f5d07f%40googlegroups.com.
