SP45086 Insyde F.18 whitelist removal request

[xts204]

Greetings from Canada!

I'm working with an ancient HP NC8230 running Win XP in order to support some ancient hardware/serial port. It is what it is...at least it's not steam powered.

This beast uses Mini-PCI (full size!) WiFi cards; my selection is quite limited. I've got a Atheros AR9223 sitting here which I'd like to get going, to support N speeds. Unfortunately, I'm dealing with this Whitelist nonsense

Here's a link to Insyde F.18 BIOS:

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp45001-45500/sp45086.exe

Hardware ID of Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG

Device Instance ID:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4220&SUBSYS_12F5103C&REV_05\4&AD1B67F&0&20F0

Hardware IDs:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4220&SUBSYS_12F5103C&REV_05
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4220&SUBSYS_12F5103C
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4220&CC_028000
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4220&CC_0280

If one of you amazing gurus is able to remove the whitelist for me, it would really make my day.

I did spend time searching the forums, but the link that was posted about six years ago is dead.

Thank you so much.

[Serg008]

Greetings from Canada!

I'm working with an ancient HP NC8230 running Win XP in order to support some ancient hardware/serial port. It is what it is...at least it's not steam powered.

This beast uses Mini-PCI (full size!) WiFi cards; my selection is quite limited. I've got a Atheros AR9223 sitting here which I'd like to get going, to support N speeds. Unfortunately, I'm dealing with this Whitelist nonsense

Here's a link to Insyde F.18 BIOS:

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp45001-45500/sp45086.exe

Hardware ID of Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG

Device Instance ID:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4220&SUBSYS_12F5103C&REV_05\4&AD1B67F&0&20F0

Hardware IDs:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4220&SUBSYS_12F5103C&REV_05
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4220&SUBSYS_12F5103C
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4220&CC_028000
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4220&CC_0280

If one of you amazing gurus is able to remove the whitelist for me, it would really make my day.

I did spend time searching the forums, but the link that was posted about six years ago is dead.

Thank you so much.

same bios done here https://forums.mydigitallife.info/thread...st-1317203

[xts204]

same bios done here https://forums.mydigitallife.info/thread...st-1317203

Thank you! I have flashed and will confirm if it's working in a week or two. The Atheros card is in the mail. I ran a compare on the original vs. modded BIOS and see it's just a one-byte mod. Amazing how a small change like that makes such a huge difference!