Journal of Timothy Kenno Handojo

Thinkpad X200: Rewiring Wireless Antennas (and Other Upgrades)

I got an X200 a long time ago before I got deeper into all this corebooted Thinkpad affair. As you may (or not) know, the iconic X200 is one of the few first corebooted Thinkpad.

The one I got came with coreboot already. Seems the previous owner decided it would be a good idea to cut off the WWAN...

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Thinkpad T420 From Parts

I guess I was bored enough to build a T420 from parts this time.

Acquisition

Mainboard

I got the one without discrete GPU. Since I plan on upgrading the CPU, I decided on picking the cheapest, which was one with an i5. mainboard-new

Screen

I got the HD+ one instead of the regular HD resolution, since I...

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Running Alpine on USB Armory (Part 3)

In continuation of my previous article, I'm diving deeper into Alpine Linux to be able to customize my stuff on the USB armory.

As I'm learning more and more about how things comes together, I've become fascinated by how they do things. I think it's ingenious how they implement some kind of immu...

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Running Alpine on USB Armory (Part 2)

I continued where I left off from my previous post with a USB Armory and an FT232RL connected thru UART for communication to host.

Compiling the kernel

Turns out it's just vanilla kernel with custom config. The only vendor specific things beside the kernel config are the kernel device trees an...

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Running Alpine on USB Armory (Part 1)

Following this article I wrote a while back, I decided to do something similar on a USB Armory that I've had for quite some time but couldn't really find a use of.

It comes with a vanila Debian installation (except for the kernel). I decided to try and have it running Apline Linux, since it's...

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