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mierda randm
okay i've got the wifi+bt card turned into a WORKING wifi card. from here is all downhill. also learned that some computers dont like it when you put nail polish inside of them use too many wireless network cards at once
*narrator voice*
"but it was not downhill. it was, very much. uphill."
anyway i am bored so im just trying what happens if i tape/block certain pins on the network card.
turns out, that a mini pcie has 52 pins, 13 of which are, by standard, "reserved". i think i know what four of them do now.
supposedly, the pin 51 controls the rfkill signal for bluetooth. not in my case tho. so i am, well, experimenting. i know that i managed to make bluetooth work some hours ago, so i should be able to make it work again at some point
anyway, there are funny results happening here and there. i managed to make the OS detect a singular network card as two network cards half-operating at once. ngl that has been entertaining.
also there is disagreement over which pin controls the wlan rfkill but this one is a 20, so that, at least, is "a standard thing". other places pointed to the 13, for example.
anyone wanna bet what happens if i block 8 "reserved" pins at once?
"but it was not downhill. it was, very much. uphill."
anyway i am bored so im just trying what happens if i tape/block certain pins on the network card.
turns out, that a mini pcie has 52 pins, 13 of which are, by standard, "reserved". i think i know what four of them do now.
supposedly, the pin 51 controls the rfkill signal for bluetooth. not in my case tho. so i am, well, experimenting. i know that i managed to make bluetooth work some hours ago, so i should be able to make it work again at some point
anyway, there are funny results happening here and there. i managed to make the OS detect a singular network card as two network cards half-operating at once. ngl that has been entertaining.
also there is disagreement over which pin controls the wlan rfkill but this one is a 20, so that, at least, is "a standard thing". other places pointed to the 13, for example.
anyone wanna bet what happens if i block 8 "reserved" pins at once?
mierda randm
*narrator voice* "but it was not downhill. it was, very much. uphill." anyway i am bored so im just trying what happens if i tape/block certain pins on the network card. turns out, that a mini pcie has 52 pins, 13 of which are, by standard, "reserved".…
a normal mini pcie connector, btw, has 52 pins. 26 in each side. not all of them do have 2x26 tho. mine has 23 in one side and 11 in the other, for a grand total of 34, and it makes it way harder to know which pin is which
mierda randm
*narrator voice* "but it was not downhill. it was, very much. uphill." anyway i am bored so im just trying what happens if i tape/block certain pins on the network card. turns out, that a mini pcie has 52 pins, 13 of which are, by standard, "reserved".…
the answer to blocking 8 reserved pins at once was "huh it works. not even half-works, it fully works (bluetooth aside of course, because fuck me)"
now there isnt much left to experiment with. i mean, intel datasheets for similar wireless cards say that pins 8 to 16 (even) are "reserved", but on the normal minipcie pinout those are named stuff like "vcc", "clk", "I/O", and other stuff that sounds slightly important, and i dont feel like messing up with those.
i officially dont know what the frick i did some hours ago to enable the bluetooth part of the card. but i think i will take this as a defeat (for now, but i have a tendency to "i forgot what happened but it cannot be that bad" and retry this sort of shit) and just resign to use a bt usb dongle, like a loser.
i mean, i havent used bluetooth in my life until a bit over a year ago, when i discovered the magic of "ooo, wireless headphones using their own dac instead of using the computer/phone's sound better" miracle. i am pretty much used to survive without using bluetooth, and have been all my life.
...but i wanted to.
also i guess i will leave two network cards inside the laptop because why not, might be useful in the future. if the laptop doesnt die because of it.
TL;DR the brand of laptops "thinkpad" says you can only use three specific, very specific, models of network cards in every laptop. if you want to replace your network card, you have to buy "that exact model" or the laptop will simply not boot. i decided that such a thing was bullshit and flashed a modded bios. the modded bios makes it so the laptop boots with unauthorized network cards, but still disables them to hell. i am blocking the "yo, network card, get disabled" signal that the computer sends to the card. and it works only for half of the card, the other half of the card is still getting disabled. and this is a specific enough problem that internet has no answers for, not even questions for, and honestly i understand it. life is complicated sometimes.
now there isnt much left to experiment with. i mean, intel datasheets for similar wireless cards say that pins 8 to 16 (even) are "reserved", but on the normal minipcie pinout those are named stuff like "vcc", "clk", "I/O", and other stuff that sounds slightly important, and i dont feel like messing up with those.
i officially dont know what the frick i did some hours ago to enable the bluetooth part of the card. but i think i will take this as a defeat (for now, but i have a tendency to "i forgot what happened but it cannot be that bad" and retry this sort of shit) and just resign to use a bt usb dongle, like a loser.
i mean, i havent used bluetooth in my life until a bit over a year ago, when i discovered the magic of "ooo, wireless headphones using their own dac instead of using the computer/phone's sound better" miracle. i am pretty much used to survive without using bluetooth, and have been all my life.
...but i wanted to.
also i guess i will leave two network cards inside the laptop because why not, might be useful in the future. if the laptop doesnt die because of it.
TL;DR the brand of laptops "thinkpad" says you can only use three specific, very specific, models of network cards in every laptop. if you want to replace your network card, you have to buy "that exact model" or the laptop will simply not boot. i decided that such a thing was bullshit and flashed a modded bios. the modded bios makes it so the laptop boots with unauthorized network cards, but still disables them to hell. i am blocking the "yo, network card, get disabled" signal that the computer sends to the card. and it works only for half of the card, the other half of the card is still getting disabled. and this is a specific enough problem that internet has no answers for, not even questions for, and honestly i understand it. life is complicated sometimes.
ah btw might be worth to mention: the laptop im "fixing" is one for which i dont have a complete keyboard (yet) (its missing physical keys), and i managed to get me one 1gb ram stick and another 2gb one, so it has a whopping 3gb of ram, but until a few hours ago, had zero because i had to take turns putting my only ram stick in either my usable laptop and this other one. so yeah it was totally a "pour time into a thing im not gonna use anyway" from the start.
but who would let pass theexcuse chance to apply pistachio green nail polish to the innards of a computer?
now im considering putting said green compound into my nails but i use my nails as tools too much and im pretty sure it wouldnt last. much. life is short and if i dont use it, the whole jar might just get dry and unusable anyways, so eh maybe i'll do it.
but who would let pass the
now im considering putting said green compound into my nails but i use my nails as tools too much and im pretty sure it wouldnt last. much. life is short and if i dont use it, the whole jar might just get dry and unusable anyways, so eh maybe i'll do it.
meh, the story is too long so im not gonna tell it. anyway i've got some original "windows 7 ultimate" dvds (i am not even sure how. afaik, this things werent even available to buy from ms? how comes ppl have them?) and i wonder how long its been since i installed an os with a dvd. i remembered it way slower, tbh, but whatever
ah btw in case anyone is interested: today i spent some time in an hospital and they told me "there doesnt seem to be any brain damage here (at least not any that could be relevant to this)" so theres that. im apparently brain damageless regarding some stuff.
since i am a telegram meme channel admin, i guess that brain damage is something i cause, not something i receive. maybe.
since i am a telegram meme channel admin, i guess that brain damage is something i cause, not something i receive. maybe.