another thought: the bluetooth module can be repalced with a usb port as well (little green rectangle near the sd card slot), good luck, id love to see the end results!
Thanks for the suggestion. Someone sent me a photo of the appropriate Bluetooth Daughter Card (BDC) for the x230 but so far I haven't managed to find anywhere that is selling them. Does anyone know where I can get one from ?
What lora board is that? Also, the camera usb cable seems to be the easiest one to reroute. You can use the space inside the display frame that you get from removing the cable to place a lora antenna. The display frame is just clips so it's easy to dissasemble but at least on the X250 you do need to kinda take apart the entire laptop to move that cable since it goes through the hinge.
The USB whitelist might be implemented by the device ID, I don't think it does anything more fancy so taking the ID of like a sierra em7345 might just do the trick. Putting a device in between the connector and the rnode is quite complicated, it's simpler to send for an mcu with native usb support and editing the ID from that then build an rnode with it. Might be worth looking into if there are enough interested people
One such mcu would be the stm32f103c8t6 which is used in the blue pill. I remember being able to easily change the vendor id so a custom rnode with it is definetly doable
The board is a Seeedstudio XIAO ESP32S3 & Wio-SX1262 Kit for Meshtastic & LoRa. It's very small. Next time I strip down an X230 to change a display panel or whatever, I will try that cable trick. There is no hurry since that RNode board is not yet on the list of flashable boards for RNode firmware.
another thought: the bluetooth module can be repalced with a usb port as well (little green rectangle near the sd card slot), good luck, id love to see the end results!
Thanks for the suggestion. Someone sent me a photo of the appropriate Bluetooth Daughter Card (BDC) for the x230 but so far I haven't managed to find anywhere that is selling them. Does anyone know where I can get one from ?
@fotografm ah excellent, I think aliexpress had them last time I looked
What lora board is that?
Also, the camera usb cable seems to be the easiest one to reroute. You can use the space inside the display frame that you get from removing the cable to place a lora antenna. The display frame is just clips so it's easy to dissasemble but at least on the X250 you do need to kinda take apart the entire laptop to move that cable since it goes through the hinge.
The USB whitelist might be implemented by the device ID, I don't think it does anything more fancy so taking the ID of like a sierra em7345 might just do the trick. Putting a device in between the connector and the rnode is quite complicated, it's simpler to send for an mcu with native usb support and editing the ID from that then build an rnode with it. Might be worth looking into if there are enough interested people
One such mcu would be the stm32f103c8t6 which is used in the blue pill. I remember being able to easily change the vendor id so a custom rnode with it is definetly doable
Changing the vendor ID would be a neat trick. What is the blue pill ?
The board is a Seeedstudio XIAO ESP32S3 & Wio-SX1262 Kit for Meshtastic & LoRa. It's very small. Next time I strip down an X230 to change a display panel or whatever, I will try that cable trick. There is no hurry since that RNode board is not yet on the list of flashable boards for RNode firmware.
@@fotografm blue pill is a name to a cheap arduino like board with the aforementioned STM chip
You mentioned bios hacking. Did you look at coreboot? No more whitelist.
Thanks for the tip. I looked at it a while ago but didn't try it yet. Maybe I should...
@ 1vyrain is the one!
or libreboot