06-08-2013, 12:23 AM
Current card:
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company WMIB-275N Half-size Mini PCIe Card
Physical Slot: 1
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at d8700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-82-ff-ff-22-00-26
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting
Kernel driver in use: brcmsmac
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This is basically a ProBook 4410s with a different chipset (GL40) compared to a GM45 in the 4410s, a Celeron, a 2GB SATA SSD, and loaded with Embedded Std. 2009. I acquired one of these for $90, dropped in a T8100 as well as a 160GB hard drive. it's running Linux nicely, except...
It has a whitelist. I tried to swap out the Broadcom 43224 card for a Realtek 8188CE I had lying around and it told me that it had an unsupported Wireless device, shut down remove and restart. So I'm hoping someone can de-whitelist this so that I may have freedom to use what wireless cards I want to in this on-the-cheap laptop.
I've attached the older of the two BIOSes available for this laptop, because the second one does nothing, just adds in the secure update nonsense. Inside the Zip is the folder that extracts to C:\swsetup as well as the contents of the BIOS.CAB file, a-la Universal Extractor.
A link to the page of origin: HPQFlash for HP Notebook System BIOS - Microsoft Windows-Based
Thanks so much in advance.
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company WMIB-275N Half-size Mini PCIe Card
Physical Slot: 1
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at d8700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-82-ff-ff-22-00-26
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting
Kernel driver in use: brcmsmac
=====================================
This is basically a ProBook 4410s with a different chipset (GL40) compared to a GM45 in the 4410s, a Celeron, a 2GB SATA SSD, and loaded with Embedded Std. 2009. I acquired one of these for $90, dropped in a T8100 as well as a 160GB hard drive. it's running Linux nicely, except...
It has a whitelist. I tried to swap out the Broadcom 43224 card for a Realtek 8188CE I had lying around and it told me that it had an unsupported Wireless device, shut down remove and restart. So I'm hoping someone can de-whitelist this so that I may have freedom to use what wireless cards I want to in this on-the-cheap laptop.
I've attached the older of the two BIOSes available for this laptop, because the second one does nothing, just adds in the secure update nonsense. Inside the Zip is the folder that extracts to C:\swsetup as well as the contents of the BIOS.CAB file, a-la Universal Extractor.
A link to the page of origin: HPQFlash for HP Notebook System BIOS - Microsoft Windows-Based
Thanks so much in advance.