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My X230 has essentially the same thing (well, two actually; one from the old Bluetooth connector [0] and one poaching the connector from the docking pins), nice
by DaSHacka 3y ago
My X230 has essentially the same thing (well, two actually; one from the old Bluetooth connector [0] and one poaching the connector from the docking pins), nice to see the same concept being hacked onto more modern laptops
[0] https://files.catbox.moe/ezqhuq.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/ezqhuq.jpg
- fragmede 3y agoWoah that's cool. did you make that yourself?
- hypercube33 3y agoI have some think pads so I went looking - it's either an official or third party addon for one or a few models for wifi USB dongles or something you can get.
- ornornor 3y agoWhat did you search for?
- DaSHacka 3y agoThe pic I sent is of a USB mod from aliexpress replacing the normal Bluetooth connector, you can find information about it by searching "x230 internal USB" or something similar. Its quite a popular mod as modern WiFi cards have integrated Bluetooth anyway, so there's no need for the old dedicated Bluetooth radio.
- DaSHacka 3y agoI bought it off aliexpress (and the image wasn't mine, I didn't want to open my laptop) but they're pretty inexpensive (~$5). I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to make one yourself, the connector communicates over USB so its just a matter of connecting the right pins to a proper female USB connector
- wutwutwat 3y agohttps://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/a7d41af146c193701c25910edb3a421333e698709a48b0464756796fd393e8b1/detection https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/a7d41af146c193701c25910ed...
- ale42 3y agoLooks like a false positive
- poizan42 3y agoThe page also fails to load in firefox with SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER
- radlad 3y agoWorks fine here on Firefox/macOS.
- wutwutwat 3y agoSomeone posts a link which has multiple virus scanners reporting the image as being malicious, and you thought that it’s fine to download that file to your machine and open it? It loading fine has nothing to do with if it’s malicious or not, that’s kinda the whole point of malware and viruses.
- processunknown 3y agoMultiple is a stretch when one scanner marks it as malicious and one marks it as suspicious and all the rest report it as fine. It’s very likely a false positive.
- crtasm 3y agoIt's a jpeg.
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