Either the BIOS goes, or the laptop goes. Need a whitelist BIOS for an 8710W

Unfortunately, I've run into an issue that has stricken every single laptop, regardless of OS, that I've ran that has an intel 4965N WiFi card. Dell Latitudes, Inspirons, Acers, HPs, Lenovos, Toshibas, Gateway, Sony, XP, Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7, 32 bit, 64 bit.

Transfers of large files to my NAS, such as DVD ISOs, system images, or VMware images, will result in a failed transfer 100% of the time.

The issue does not occur with Broadcom or Atheros cards, or intel cards such as the the 2915ABG, 2200BG, 5100N, 5300N, 5350N. Just the 4965N.


I have an intel 5100N card I bought for a friend to use in a laptop, but he opted to use a Broadcom card that was supported in OSX. I'd like to use it in the HP to fix this issue, but unfortunately, HP's current whitelisting of WiFi cards prevents me from doing so.


If anyone can help me find a BIOS that will let me use my 5100N, it would be greatly appreciated.


Otherwise, the 8710W is going to reach an early demise, or rather, sell-off.

 

If you want to remove the whitelist you have to provide the Device ID as well.

 

Same gen 2510P has whitelisted bios as well. 2510P whitelist devices and the workaround (ADCCC) info is here. Whitelisting makes the mPCIe socket no longer a universal PCI-SIG compliant mPCIe slot, so if advertised as such could constitute false advertising on HP's part.