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    HP Pvilion DVSeries / 54mbit WLan upgrade to 300mbit WLan

    Discussion in 'HP' started by hiberian, Jul 10, 2007.

  1. hiberian

    hiberian Newbie

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    Hello,

    Im a german - so my englisch is a little bit poor.

    I wanna now if it´s possible to replace the original Intel 54Mbit Wlan Card with the newer 300Mbit Wlan Model ?

    before I tried a gigabyte Wlan module with the 128MBit Atheros Chip but the Bios of the HP is not compatible.

    Maybe it have to be an Intel Wlan Card - or is the newer 300MBit card just for the Centrino Pro Notebooks ?
     
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  2. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    HP has a BIOS lock on non HP approved WLAN cards. So, you will have to either hack around the BIOS or use a HP specificed card for your model. Ofcourse this would only work if and only if HP offered the 300Mbit WLAN for your particular series.
     
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  3. brianstretch

    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    The antenna configuration is different for the 802.11n cards, so merely swapping in a new miniPCI card won't be enough even if you can get past the idiotic BIOS whitelist unless the third (yellow) antenna wire is already there. Knowing HP, it probably won't be. See the HP service guide for details.
     
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