Changing wi-fi card Vendor/Product ID number to bypass Lenovo whitelist: help please!

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So here's where I'm at. I'm following this guide (http://web.archive.org/web/20071016063645/http://www.dagarlas.org/stuff/computing/article0001.php) in order to do this process.

I have a Thinkpad S1 Yoga with a new Intel 7260 mini PCie wireless card which should be supported, but since I didn't buy the replacement wifi card it through Lenovo the VID is not on the whitelist. I currently have this Intel 7260 installed in my Asus Zenbook Prime UX21A which has Fedora 25 installed in order to complete this fix.

When I try to run his idchanger tool, my output just says "KILLED"

[root@MashedBrotato ~] ./idchanger -r 0xf7c00000
Accessing adapter at 0xF7C00000
Killed

I'm thinking the issue may be that my Memory is 64-bit vs. the 32-bit from the walkthrough, but that's based on no information other than that I can note that as an obvious difference. If this is a case, would a modification to the IN32 and OUT32 portions of this code be necessary? http://web.archive.org/web/20071016115335/http://dagarlas.org/stuff/computing/0001/idchanger.c
I don't know how to complete this if so.

Here's my relevent info from the lspci printout:

[root@MashedBrotato arthur]# lspci -nv

02:00.0 0280: 8086:08b1 (rev 73)
Subsystem: 8086:4070
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 31
Memory at f7c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [40] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 7c-5c-f8-ff-ff-cc-b0-d7
Capabilities: [14c] Latency Tolerance Reporting
Capabilities: [154] Vendor Specific Information: ID=cafe Rev=1 Len=014 <?>
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi

I need to change that 8086:08b1 to 8086:08b2 and the 8086:4070 to 8086:C070 from what I can find regarding Lenovo's official VID for the 7260 card, but that info is slightly sketchy. If anybody has a good source for their officially white-listed VIDs that would be really helpful as well.

Please help!

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If the pci card wouldn't be whitelisted the machine would't boot at all, but apparently you're in linux so it's a firmware issue. Lenovo has started to do some shitty stuff recently, so I'd first check if blacklisting 'ideapad_laptop' resolves the issues. (Doesn't need to be an ideapad, that's just what the module is named)

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Perhaps I was unclear. The card needs to permanently go in a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga S1, but I have it installed in an Asus laptop right now (my Linux laptop) so I can affect this change. When put in the Thinkpad I get the 1602 error for an unsupported Wi-Fi card immediately upon attempting to boot.

Edit: 1802 error. My B.

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Yh it doesn't fit Lenovos walled garden apparently, not much you can do tbh unless you can install a custom bios.
And you can't change the firmware on a card either. ID's you can change but those are machine-specific, you can't change an ID of a card and swap it to another machine preserving the changes.
Or can you?

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I got the impression that you could, mostly because the guide walking through this indicates that your options are "you have 3 ways to do it: using another laptop without bios lock, using a minipci to pci converter in your desktop or inserting the adapter in your HP notebook after POST", his guide being for an HP laptop but being referenced HERE: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_unauthorized_MiniPCI_network_card

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Try inserting the card instantly after bios post, that's what the dude who wrote the article did.
Because I'm highly sceptical you can conf a card and swap it to another machine...

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I think you can. You're changing EEPROM values, which are hard-coded into the card. Regardless, I can't figure out how to modify his solution to my needs. Ugh.