Compaq CQ62-220US wlan upgradeable?

I just ordered an Intel 6200 half height wlan card to replace the horrible Atheros that won't even see my 802.11n access point.

I have heard that HP would put a whitelist in the BIOS to thwart wireless card upgrades, apparently completely halting the boot process. Any idea if Compaq does the same thing? I assume the antennae are 2.4 GHz only, so I should just turn off the 5 GHz option? Probably a single radio, so would only work on one freq at a time anyway . . .

I chose the 6200 as I only have two antenna in the laptop, and state-of-the-art three spatial stream wireless is probably not worth the custom modification, especially in light of the fact my Engenius EAP9550 only has two antennae.

 

There aren't different antennas for 5GHz and 2.4GHz.

I think it should work, I believe there are a few HP laptops that use that card.

 

I would imagine that since HP uses BIOS whitelisting so does Compaq- it's the same company after all.

 

Yep, I get the dreaded "104 unsupported wireless network device detected".

Has this BIOS been hacked to remove the whitelist? I don't suppose I should be so lucky that these HP and Compaq laptops share a common BIOS?

Edit: apparently this thing has InsydeH2O F.15 BIOS