How to > HP BIOS MiniPCI Fix- nc6000/others

[Loekie]

Trying to use N-speeds as well I bought an intel 5300, it doesn't work.
I read comments about taping off pin 20 which might work, in what way is this pin counted? Strating with the small piece on the left and then on to the bigger part? or the other way around?
Is it located on the bigger or the smaller part?

[nando4]

Trying to use N-speeds as well I bought an intel 5300, it doesn't work.
I read comments about taping off pin 20 which might work, in what way is this pin counted? Strating with the small piece on the left and then on to the bigger part? or the other way around?
Is it located on the bigger or the smaller part?

See the mPCIe pinout, using the mechanical key (cutout) as a point of reference.

[TomNX6310]

Hello Whitelist-Friends,

first of all thanks to Semi for his work!!!

I am trying to get a Wifi Link 5300 to run on a nx6310.

My first try was to exchange the PCI ID with the new and to correct the checksum using the wake on lan string. The checksum have been corrected (same sum and written green) and flashing was possible. Unfrotunately the screen was blank after reboot and my pulse some beats higher I got the cheapest floppy from my friend Mr. Ebay for 11.28 Euros including shipment and got the bios recovered (pressing the 4 arrow keys when starting the laptop).

I tried it a second time with changing one ID to the new and to balance the checksum with the second ID present in my bios. Same effect.

The third time I just increase one byte by one within the ID and decreased 4 bytes further the byte by one. The checksum was still the same. Also this did not work and the screen remained blank after reboot.

Does anybody succeeded in patching a nx6310 whitelist ==> means I did still something wrong.

I got the fear that there is a second check to the whitelist maybe in newer BIOS revisions...

Best regards,
TomNX6310

[stilia.johny]

i have an hp compaq nc6000 and i try to hack hp white list but i cant///
can somebody help me..
i read the article but i cant do some steps..


help me..

[kibkalo]

I need help with modding my Elitebook 8530w BIOS.
I do need WiMAX. And I have tried several modules - laptop doesn't turn on, saying about bad WWAN.
So I have a current original BIOS, I know the VEN/DEV IDs.
Can someone help me with exact steps?

[nando4]

@kibkalo - *if* you can bootup the system, suspend, attach wifimax card, resume and Device Manager scan sees it, then consider adding a switch to bypass the bios check as shown here.

[MiXAL]

@kibkalo - *if* you can bootup the system, suspend, attach wifimax card, resume and Device Manager scan sees it, then consider adding a switch to bypass the bios check as shown here.

I would like to get similar switch for my WiFi card that is blocked by NC6400's BIOS. Any tips for that?

[nando4]

I would like to get similar switch for my WiFi card that is blocked by NC6400's BIOS. Any tips for that?

Switch workaround for BIOS that blocks bootup when sees incompatible wifi card

It *might* be a bit trickier for pci-e than the USB WWAN, since it requires pci-e resources to be allocated by the bios on bootup.

1/ Firstly mask pin 20 to ensure the radio is on all the time. On my 2510P I found I could get around the whitelisting but my radio would be off unless the pin20 was masked.

2/ The pci-e transmit/receive pins are 23,25,31,33 as shown in the mini pci-e pinout. Mask one of those pins, bootup into Windows, suspend system, remove cellophane tape used for masking, resume system, Device Scan. Does it pick up the wifi card? (might get an error 12: cannot allocate resources - if get that error need 3 below).

3/ If Device manager sees the wifi with error 12, then suggest using grub2 as a pci-e fixup prior to boot. grub2 is a bootloader with a cool memory write ability. So it acts between the bios bootup and OS bootup to basically do the same thing the bios does when it sees a whitelist compatible device. See here for an idea of the PCI Bridge Configuration you'd need to set.

If happy using above as a solution, then add a switch to more user friendly masking/unmasking of the wifi pin. I'd suggest masking the pin, but off the edge (no contact with socket), have wire running to your on/off switch, then from switch have a wire going back to the soldered point off the side of the socket pin. A little bit of work, but can be done.

If you've got more time then money could do this, otherwise suggest grabbing a HP wifi card off ebay. Would be good to have a pioneer try this and report there result. It *should* work so long as it's the bios that blocks the bootup. In saying that, HP have more advanced whitelisting in later models. On the 2510P, the bios is somehow settingup the pci-e configuration space so that the OS doesn't even see the wifi card when do a suspend/resume. See the workaround used for that.

[gatsu_1981]

Hello, I tried to read the PDF included, and I watched a video, but I really get lost during "whitelist finetuning".
I get a 65% success, then I can select a chunk, but how? Should I immediately copy, 1 click, 3 clicks on next?
If i select a 12 byte chunk and try to find it inside the hex editor, I can't really find anything! I'm stuck before finding the complete VEN/DEV ID.

I have a NC2400 with 68YOP bios, can you please help me?
Old one is an Intel 3965 ABG, newest one is an Atheros 9281.

OLD: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4222&SUBSYS_135C103C
NEW: PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_002A&SUBSYS_03031A32

Link for my bios:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2491329/Rom.7z

P.s. I'm not asking to do the job for me, if you don't have enough time I will be more than happy to understand the complete process.
I'm a IT student, so learning something new is good

[gatsu_1981]

BTW.

Already tried pin 20 masking --> can't boot, error 104.

Tried booting without card, entering windows, suspend, putting card in --> card not seen by OS, like it never was inserted.

Tried swapping card --> card perfectly working, Win 7 find it and configure it.

For OSX it would be good enough to swap with a 4311 card, I already tested it and it's in the whitelist, 15€ well-spended.
But I would really like to use my N card, it's really small and I think it would improve even my battery life.