Lenovo Y510p BIOS flash to remove wifi card whitelist

Lenovo Y510p has been out for more than 7 years, to this date I am still using it as my go-to workstation. The specification is quite old and I have upgraded and replaced everything that I could, except the wireless card, due to the infamous BIOS whitelisting.

Thanks to techinferno, there are people sharing the modded BIOS and the steps are listed in the following article:

https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/3546-lenovo-y410p-y510p-unlocked-bios-wlan-whitelist-mod-vbios-mod/

Note: In order to downgrade BIOS, people will need to turn on back flash feature in the BIOS setting (press F2 on boot)

Here is the zipped file if you need it.

LENOVO BIOS

I bought a wifi card that has BCM4352 chip on it, the chip is installed on a PCI slot (check via lspci). on Manjaro, you need to install network-broadcom-wl via mhwd:

sudo mhwd -i pci network-broadcom-wl

Now my wifi speed is upgraded from 20Mbps to 500Mbps. Very nice!

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