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    Serial EEPROM Hacking? (Defeating BIOS Whitelists)

    No I haven't found anyone else that has the same problem. The way I understand it the hardware switch signals the BIOS which tells the card to turn the wireless TX/RX off or on via pin 20 in the mPCIe slot. Putting tape on pin 20 keeps the BIOS from turning the card off. Apparently the BIOS...
  2. J

    Serial EEPROM Hacking? (Defeating BIOS Whitelists)

    I put some tape over pin 20 and it works. The hardware switch is disabled but the wireless works fine. http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-REMOVED-Lenovo-Thinkpad-x220-WWAN-whitelist-remove-request?page=3
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    Serial EEPROM Hacking? (Defeating BIOS Whitelists)

    I'm talking about the hardware switch. I'm replacing a 2 antenna Atheros B/G card with a 2 antenna Intel A/G/N card. The antenna connectors are the same.
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    Serial EEPROM Hacking? (Defeating BIOS Whitelists)

    It's just got XP on it at the moment and I have the Atheros card back in it now. I would think that all resources would be assigned properly and the BIOS is just keeping the switch signal off since the drivers load fine and it looks fine in the device manager.
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    Serial EEPROM Hacking? (Defeating BIOS Whitelists)

    I'm an IT guy and I will never buy another HP and will tell my customers to stay away from them also. My newer Fujitsu laptops don't seem to have whitelists but I have an older B series that came with an Atheros card and won't work with an Intel. Not 100% sure it's a whitelist problem. The...
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