An alternative way around whitelisting

[jhalfmoon]

Hi all,

There may be an alternative way for people to get around whitelisting, without BIOS modding. It involves re-activating the PCI function, to which the wireless card is connected and which was disabled by the BIOS due to whitelisting. By using a very nifty and simple feature of the grub bootloader, you can write a single dword value to the PCI config area and reactivate the wireless card. The beauty of this is that it will appear to any OS as if the card had never been disabled.

I've written an article about it over here.

I think it will make quite a few of you very happy.

Cheers,

Johnny

[oscarMeyer3dFrenzy]

This does not work for laptops that halt during POST when a card that isn't on the whitelist is installed, such as the Thinkpad x131e.