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EDIT: The purchased wifi cards no longer require this hack, as the DSDTs available through the Pro Book installer allow the wireless cards to be used for both wifi and bluetooth. Please note that as with the standard atheros probook models, bluetooth on the purchased cards is no longer functional after sleep.
Text below is left for history sake.
For anyone who has a non Atheros wifi bluetooth combo card in their pro book, you are able to purchase one from ebay or similar. I can confirm that the AR5B195 from eBay works 100% for wifi and bluetooth in windows, Wifi with below kexts in lion, bluetooth requires the bluetooth fix as in blueking pack. I'll explain my process.
The card was shipped from Hong Kong, so I think the region info on the card was not compatible OOTB. After placing the device ID in the vanilla IO80211Family.kext (pci168c,2b), the wireless card was recognised by the system on reboot and it also found wireless networks. The card however did not connect past the router to the ISP (those steps were red/yellow in diagnostics).
Verbose booting showed that lion was having issues recognising the locale, and I had a hunch that was the issue. There was a method to change the region data on the card itself, however they did not work for me - possibly because they were written for the non combo card.
A user called andyvand on the infinitemac forum created a "nub" which temporarily changes the region IDs on a per session basis. Installing this nub in /S/L/E alongside the modified vanilla IO80211Family.kext results in flawless wifi on reboot. andyvand is ok with sharing his work as stated in his original post.
Hope this helps someone in the unfortunate position of having a non atheros wifi/bluetooth card probook.
To sum up -
1. Purchase an Atheros branded combo card from (or wherever you find it) http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/150647070680 ... 2344wt_807. make sure you ask for an Atheros Branded AR5B195, part number 593127 - 001. HP bios locks non compatible and non HP approved cards. This card is for HP.
2. Install the combo card into your probook, and then log into lion to install both of the kexts attached to /S/L/E using kext utility (drag them on top of the kext utility app).
3. In your windows partition (if applicable) run the HP Driver CD. It should automatically recognise the atheros card and install the required drivers.
4. That's basically it. You're more than welcome to try it without the nub to see if it works for you, this could be different on a card by card basis.
Text below is left for history sake.
For anyone who has a non Atheros wifi bluetooth combo card in their pro book, you are able to purchase one from ebay or similar. I can confirm that the AR5B195 from eBay works 100% for wifi and bluetooth in windows, Wifi with below kexts in lion, bluetooth requires the bluetooth fix as in blueking pack. I'll explain my process.
The card was shipped from Hong Kong, so I think the region info on the card was not compatible OOTB. After placing the device ID in the vanilla IO80211Family.kext (pci168c,2b), the wireless card was recognised by the system on reboot and it also found wireless networks. The card however did not connect past the router to the ISP (those steps were red/yellow in diagnostics).
Verbose booting showed that lion was having issues recognising the locale, and I had a hunch that was the issue. There was a method to change the region data on the card itself, however they did not work for me - possibly because they were written for the non combo card.
A user called andyvand on the infinitemac forum created a "nub" which temporarily changes the region IDs on a per session basis. Installing this nub in /S/L/E alongside the modified vanilla IO80211Family.kext results in flawless wifi on reboot. andyvand is ok with sharing his work as stated in his original post.
Hope this helps someone in the unfortunate position of having a non atheros wifi/bluetooth card probook.
To sum up -
1. Purchase an Atheros branded combo card from (or wherever you find it) http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/150647070680 ... 2344wt_807. make sure you ask for an Atheros Branded AR5B195, part number 593127 - 001. HP bios locks non compatible and non HP approved cards. This card is for HP.
2. Install the combo card into your probook, and then log into lion to install both of the kexts attached to /S/L/E using kext utility (drag them on top of the kext utility app).
3. In your windows partition (if applicable) run the HP Driver CD. It should automatically recognise the atheros card and install the required drivers.
4. That's basically it. You're more than welcome to try it without the nub to see if it works for you, this could be different on a card by card basis.