Sorry, been offline. I can confirm it works and boots past whitelist, but I am not sure on the specifics beyond that. My card has strange behavior, but I don't know whether it is the laptop since its the first time I tried.
It boots up fine into windows with my intel 6300 Ultimate-N OEM branded and my OEM branded MC8790V.
From there the intel 6300 works fine and works within Access Connex, and FN+F5. No issues here.
The WWAN gets shaky, but I believe in this case it is the card. It has never worked with FN+F5 because it is beyond IBM's sierra card usage (e.g. there is no IBM/Lenovo branded card). Basically what I am seeing is the card works fine, establishes a connection and I can browse for a while. After ten minutes, it drops, goes to airplane mode, turns the radio back on, and then I reconnect. Does this a few more times and finally goes into Low Power Mode effectively throwing a hardware off that I cannot combat except by shutting off completely then turning back on. I also checked the error log and see intermittent errors adding up so it could be the card itself.
Again in the case of my WWAN card, I believe it is the card or card/laptop combo. The electrical spec for the card shows many voltages being a max 2.6V instead 3.33. It supposedly follows Mini PCIe spec 1.2, but all I could get a hold of is 1.0 and that spec confirms the bus voltages are weird (supposing they do not change). The previous laptop was a T61 which was c.2007 so it may have worked fine. Should have just bought the Gobi when I bought the laptop...
I leave it to you to decide whether to use it...
Link:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6655374/Lenovo% ... TAV134.zip
Original Source:
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/thread ... ts./page32
DL:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/86onj2
The best part though, it is ender's method of hacking the BIOS that was used...
Let me know if you see similar behavior.
EDIT: Also, there are two cycles of 5 beeps and a 3-5 second delay at power on. Don't know why. This was the same with the previous hacked BIOS. It comes and goes. I have not looked into the behavior. My guess is it is some kind of mechanism that says the BIOS is not lenovo or something if you were to ever send it back with that BIOS on it. I could see that as a new feature since they're laptops are being hacked left and right. If you have POST, but your laptop needs to get fixed by lenovo, make sure you flash back to an official one so they don't dispute your warranty with you...
Also bios author's working with me to get another one made up. They make them up with specific hardware ID's custom for you...