Trying to figure out exactly how to configure vPro AMT via the MEBx configuration. Most computers with this feature have a selection to configure the network interface associated with this feature, the 7139 has a place to configure the system name and domain but does not have the usual item to select Static or DHCP IP acquisition, or netmask or any TCP/IP configuration at all.

I am also unclear how this feature works with a device that only has WiFi (or perhaps WWAN) as its only built in network interface and neither of these potential network interfaces are actually provided by an onboard chipset.

So I guess the question is, what exactly are you configuring in the MEBx configuration menus and is the 7139 actually capable of vPro AMT functionality? In particular the remote KVM functions. I would think that if this was to work it would need to either A) function only in docked mode and bridge to the docks NIC -or- B) provide some preliminary WiFi connect info in the MEBx menus -or- possibly C) work in conjunction with some other BIOS feature that offers some kind of firmware level network establishment of some sort.

Kind of the point of the whole vPro / AMT / MEBx environment is to provide OS independent management of the system at pre-BIOS boot levels. There seems to be quite a few mentions of it as fixes in various driver and BIOS updates, but I guess I don't understand the point of fixes to something that doesn't seem to have the fundamental elements, that I can see, to work in the first place.

Am I missing something?

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