So I bought a new wireless N card for my laptop. While I was waiting for it be get here I starting doing some reading. It turns out that HP, and IBM, use whitelists in their laptop BIOs to stop you from using any cards other then their overpriced ones. I was kind of hoping that since all the posts I was reading were for consumer HP laptops that I might be safe since I have a business Compaq 6715b.
No such luck. So now I'm trying the hack covered in these three pages:
www.richud.com/HP-Pavilion-104-Bios-Fix/
www.rechner.org/b1800_bios.html
www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/wifi-card-pci-ids.html
Now as much as I'm looking forward to this learning experience I am very tempted to go the easy route and see if I can't just edit my wireless card's ID. In fact the Richud site even gives a link as to how to do this, sadly though it 404's.
PS: For those increased I'm trying to install a SparkLAN WPEA-124N.
Edit: This seems to be the link that was 404'ing. I think I'll try to add my card to the whitelist first since I don't want to run into any problems with linux drivers when I do boot into linux.
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