https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/5dd2d6ba-5788-49e4-9fff-7173dcff88ec A long-awaited update on the 4th gen Thinkpad whitelist situation! Thanks to the effort of the Thinkpad community you can now mod the BIOS yourself – without paying for it and relying on other people's work. Text version: https://notthebe.ee/blog/removing-the-wifi-whitelist/ CH341a (eBay) https://www.ebay.com/itm/EEPROM-BIOS-USB-Programmer-CH341A-SOIC8-Clip-1-8V-Adapter-SOIC8-Adapter/264715247642 CH341a (Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/Organizer-Socket-Adpter-Programmer-CH341A/dp/B07R5LPTYM CH341a (Aliexpress) https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32793476447.html Flashrom https://flashrom.org/Flashrom UEFIPatch https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool/releases thinkpad-uefi-sign https://github.com/thrimbor/thinkpad-uefi-sign Patches (right click – save link as) http://paranoid.anal-slavery.com/files/backup_thinkpads/xx40_patches_v7.txt Patches (mirror): https://pastebin.com/TZYnnmY8 Special thanks to: Thrimbor https://github.com/thrimbor tonymacx86 https://www.tonymacx86.com/ XX and paranoidbashthot for developing the BootGuard bypass method and patches for xx40 onwards Support the channel: Patreon https://patreon.com/WolfgangsChannel PayPal (one time donation) https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=S46R487SBMJZ8 Follow me: Twitter https://twitter.com/notthebeeee GitHub https://github.com/notthebee Music: Falls - A Strange Science Fairlight - Modularity Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:53 Disclaimers 01:41 Special thanks 01:59 Hardware preparations (the tutorial starts here) 02:32 Software preparations 03:34 Preparing the patches 04:05 Making a BIOS dump 05:30 Patching the BIOS file 06:30 Flashing the modded BIOS 07:20 Outro Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:28:53 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/5dd2d6ba-5788-49e4-9fff-7173dcff88ec All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.