N 6205 or N 6235 for ASUS N56VZ-DS71

I'm upgrading my wireless card for 6205 or 6235 and I was just wondering is there any big difference beside 6235 has bluetooth?
I'm not really interest in 6300 series since I have to add 3rd antennas.

It seems like price range is almost similar to each other. I looked on online and there is too many different models of 6205 and I don't know which one is right one for the laptop I'm trying to install.

 

I guess it depends on two things:
1.) Is your current wireless card a wifi + bt combo card
and
2.) If so, do you want bluetooth?

This should make the decision pretty easy.

 

Avoid ibm/lenovo/hp branded if you dun have ibm/lenovo/hp.
If you have a ibm/lenovo/hp, ask/search in corresponding subforum/ owner lounge first.

 

Can you give me some link for the place i can purchase?

 

typically they are cheaper on ebay or amazon , google shopping will show big box stores.
Ebay listing usually state where they pull it from and if it is a lenovo/ibm card, where other place "usually" sell genuine one( just a guess, got mine on ebay...)

 

A lenovo or HP branded card will generally work fine in an ASUS. It's the other way around: whitelisted BIOSes require a certain PCI ID and that's why you get the special Lenovo/IBM and HP cards. They will play fine in a non-whitelisted system like an ASUS N56.

There are a lot of fake cards out there, so be sure to buy it from a trusted reseller.

 

The problem is not whitelist, there is a driver problem with hp/lenovo card where they can not be started in windows environment in other brand laptop. They should work in linux though.

 

I have an HP card that I have used in 3 different ASUS machines, the driver came from HP's support site.

 

What chipset is that? I have a HP/lenovo 6200 and a 6300 which refuse to work in any thing other than HP/lenovo machine.

 

It's an AR9300 chipset, HB112AGN card.

 

afaik, only the Lenovo adapters will not work in other laptops. It might be the same for certain HP adapters though. I have an 2006 HP broadcomm adapter that i could try out and see if it works.

 

because those atheros card are not "branded". Branded Intel card have different pin layout when compare to normal intel/athero/broadcom cards.

 

Yeah it must be an intel thing. Where did you read about the pin layout being different?

 

I forgot where I read it (or I guess it..), but the driver just don't start for those card.

Just google "intel This device cannot start. (Code 10)"

Intel also have a different pcie pin compare to normal card (atheros/broadcom), but not sure how they different ~~

 

I've been saying that pin layout may be different based on the fact that Lenovo cards don't start in non-Lenovo notebooks with Windows running.

It's clear that non-Lnovo cards won't start in Lenovo notebooks due to whitelisting but it should work the other way around.

Apparently it doesn't- but only in Windows environment. It's just an assumption though (I would bet my money on pin 13)