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differences in the entry: vendor
Lenovo
differences in the entry: model name
Thinkpad T530
differences in the entry: subtype (notebook or netbook)
notebook
differences in the entry: architecture
amd64
differences in the entry: does it have a free bios?
no
differences in the entry: can free operating systems be installed?
yes
differences in the entry: does the device prevent the installation of wifi cards not-approved by the vendor?
no yes
differences in the entry: year of commercialization
2012
differences in the entry: GNU/Linux distribution used for the test
trisquel_4_5
differences in the entry: compatibility with free software
C-silver
differences in the entry: tested with the following kernel libre
2.6.35
differences in the entry: video card model
Intel HD Graphics 4000
differences in the entry: does the video card work?
yes_with_3D
differences in the entry: wifi model
Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] (rev 34)
differences in the entry: does the wifi card work?
no
differences in the entry: webcam model
differences in the entry: does the webcam work?
yes
differences in the entry: Description
[h1]Wifi card whitelist[/h1]
[p]All thinkpads have a Wifi card whitelist at the BIOS level that prevent installing certain WiFi cards.
The WiFi card requires nonfree firmware (iwlwifi). restriction can be bypassed with a BIOS modification: either installing Libreboot, Coreboot or editing the official Lenovo/IBM BIOS.[/p]

Power management doesn't work that well by default, but by following instructions on http://www.thinkwiki.org the power management is OK.
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