Activate PCIe slot deactivated by BIOS

[Rui Paulo]

On 26 May 2010, at 07:55, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> wrote:

> On 25/05/2010 13:57, Rui Paulo wrote:
>> On 22 May 2010, at 13:27, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>>
>>> On 22/05/2010 13:47, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>>>> Today the card arrived and the BIOS complains (HP 6510b):
>>>>    104-Unsupported wireless network device detected.
>>>>    System halted. Remove device and restart.
>>>>
>>>> The system boots if I turn off the wireless device in BIOS, but
>>>> this means I cannot use it.
>>>>
>>>> Now, I could just get a BIOS image and exchange the device IDs
>>>> there. But I wonder, wouldn't it be easier to just reactivate the
>>>> PCIe slot through the OS?
>>>
>>> This e-mail is written through the ath wireless I got:
>>>
>>> # ifconfig
>>> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0  
>>> mtu 2290
>>>    ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f
>>>    media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
>>>    status: associated
>>> ...
>>> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0  
>>> mtu 1500
>>>    ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f
>>>    inet 192.168.178.41 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.178.255
>>>    media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g
>>>    status: associated
>>>    ssid "Obi-Wan Kenobi" channel 7 (2442 MHz 11g) bssid  
>>> 00:15:0c:d5:37:a0
>>>    regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
>>>    deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450
>>>    bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5
>>>    protmode CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL
>>>
>>> I achieved this by passing the BIOS check with the intel wireless  
>>> and
>>> hot-swapping it with the atheros card afterwards. This is  
>>> impractical
>>> and evil, so I'm still searching for a solution.
>>>
>>> But at least I know that the device works.
>>
>> HP laptops really dislike the fact that your card isn't part of the  
>> Centrino brand, so they halt if they find an Atheros. Your best  
>> option is to change the Atheros card EEPROM to match the device and  
>> vendor id of your wpi card. Then you also need to change the ath  
>> driver to attach to that device id.
>>
>> It's evil, but it's better than hot-swapping.
>
> Yes, but it still sucks. And I actually have no idea how to flash the
> ath device. All the instructions on this I have found use Linux.

Please ask sam at FreeBSD.org about that.

>
> I'd prefer to flash the notebook BIOS, but I have no way to defeat
> its evil compression.

I think flashing the bios is more risky than fixing the EEPROM.


>
>> The other option is to buy a iwn card which works better in FreeBSD  
>> than wpi.
>
> Nay, this is my goodbye to Intel brand wireless. I always thought
> wpa_supplicant was to blame for unreliable connections, but it
> all just works with the Atheros hardware.

Intel has made progress and I really think that they are on the right  
track to produce good cards.


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