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    HP nc8000 Whitelist

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Nedemai, Nov 25, 2013.

  1. Nedemai

    Nedemai Notebook Geek

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    Hello All,

    I am having a paticularly troublesome issue with a HP nc8000 and its stupid wifi whitelist. There isn't a great deal of information on the internet about how to edit or bypass this and my efforts have resulted in bricks. I've socketed the bios and have a spare chip which I can recover the machine with so I'm not too worried about testing out bad bioses, I'm more concerned with either completely bypassing the whitelist or adding my wifi card to said whitelist.

    If anyone can provide me useful information It would be greatly appriciated. I realize this is an older machine but I would like to use it.
     
    Nedemai, Nov 25, 2013
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    Nedemai Notebook Geek

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    It was easier to reprogram the eeprom on the atheros card to appear like one in the whitelist than to edit or remove the whitelist from the machine.
     
    Nedemai, Dec 11, 2013
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    I'm not sure about hacking or bypassing the whitlelist, but here are all the HP part numbers for all of the nc8000 wireless cards. From there you could probably figure out what chipsets those cards have:

    325525-001: 802.11a/b/g LAN NIC
    325526-001: 802.11b/g LAN NIC
    339742-291: 802.11b W500 modem board (for use in Japan)
    345641-001: 802.11b wireless LAN (MOW)
    345640-001: 802.11b wireless LAN (ROW)
    368247-001: 802.11b/g wireless modem (MOW)
    368248-001: 802.11b/g wireless modem (ROW)
     
    Teraforce, Dec 24, 2013
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