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    workable miniPCIe 'N' card for HP?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by newsposter, Aug 19, 2009.

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    Ok, considering all of the mac address blocks (whitelist) in the bios, has anyone found a N wireless card that will function in a recent-build (G70) HP laptop?

    Or has the bios hack project found a way to edit out the bios whitelist?

    Or..... has anyone found a way to reflash the MAC address on an miniPCIe card to get around the bios whitelist?
     
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    Can try a few things:
    1/ Mask pin 20 on the mini pci-e card(wireless enable). That may override the detection by the bios for wifi/WWAN card whitelisting
    2/ use pcitree to write a whitelist compatible VID/FID to your non-HP wifi card
    3/ Look for bios hacks to modifiy the whitelist. Depends on the specific system as HP use a number of different bios types. There' an Insyde Bios hacking method discussed on this forum. Also see this post for hacking the HP Business notebook bios whitelist.
     
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    pcitree is exactly what I've been looking for, thanks.

    If I change the vid/fid of the card, will PnP detect the card hardware correctly and install the correct drivers?

    thanks!
     
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    This guy changed the VID/FID on his mini pci-e WWAN to a whitelist-know one and then it worked. You might be able to do it on your own system to if you hotplug in the mini pci-e card after bootup.
     
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