Oh, I had all kinds of fun back in the day. Had a (Compaq-branded) HP Mini 110 netbook and this is where I learned that at least on that model HP whitelisted their wireless cards in BIOS as when I installed the Intel card the machine refused to boot and I got an error message about an unsupported network adapter.Thanks for reminder. Years ago had a laptop which Broadcom wifi, had to compile the driver every time kernel was updated.
I got really lucky and found a hacked BIOS with the whitelist removed and that Intel card worked fine. HP said at the time that the whitelist was to ensure Energy Star compliance which was ridiculous because the machine only had to be compliant at point of sale; my opinion is that the whitelist was to ensure you bought a replacement card from HP instead of from Amazon
Lenovo and from what I hear Toshiba also whitelisted OEM wireless cards in BIOS but Lenovo quit doing that.
Statistics: Posted by wizard10000 — 2024-12-29 15:13 — Replies 4 — Views 165