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The late XV105
13th Mar 2016, 12:07
What is this (http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxNjAw/z/nXsAAOSwQPlV-NgH/$_35.JPG) wireless NIC form factor, please?

Everything I have found points to it being Lenovo-specific rather than industry standard but I hope I am wrong.

Ta muchly.
XV

Bushfiva
13th Mar 2016, 13:13
It's an industry-standard M.2 NGFF form factor.

The late XV105
13th Mar 2016, 13:14
Thank you indeed, Bushfiva. :ok:

Bushfiva
13th Mar 2016, 13:25
I just noticed the "Lenovo" word. I believe Lenovo whitelists wifi cards on most (all?) of its notebooks, so only approved cards will work. So if you put a random card in, it may or may not work.

Biggles78
13th Mar 2016, 17:24
So if you put a random card in, it may or may not work.
FYI, they don't even like you swapping the NICs between their different laptop models and very similar models at that.

The late XV105
14th Mar 2016, 00:15
You are correct, Bushfiva but there are well documented workarounds so I have decided to buy a 300Mbps NIC anyway (cheap as chips), see if it works after installing NIC and drivers and if it doesn't then decide whether to workaround or not. I have a full clone of the disc and a copy of the BIOS and also like a challenge. :)

Booglebox
20th Mar 2016, 02:00
Middleton BIOS + effective 802.11n 5ghz card is a great upgrade to any ThinkPad. My last office had so much 2.4ghz traffic the wifi was barely usable...