Help to identify wireless NIC form factor, please

[The late XV105]

What is this 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]

It's an industry-standard M.2 NGFF form factor.

[The late XV105]

Thank you indeed, Bushfiva.

[Bushfiva]

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]

Originally Posted by Bushfiva

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]

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]

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...