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The late XV105

13th March 2016 12:07

Help to identify wireless NIC form factor, please

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

13th March 2016 13:13

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

The late XV105

13th March 2016 13:14

Thank you indeed, Bushfiva. :ok:

Bushfiva

13th March 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 March 2016 17:24

Quote:

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

14th March 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 March 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...

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