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Hi.
So I got a Elitebook 8460p which unfortunately came with a Intel 6205 Wifi
Even so, a couple of hours I received it, I had OS X 10.10 running on it (thanks nguyen for PBI!), and I started working thru the good old RJ45 cable. But the WIFI not working was killing me, so went and opened my wallet and it was pretty much empty, so the chances of me ordering a working card (that passes the whitelist and works in OS X) were (and are) kinda null.
Since I do a few computer fixes here and there and have done for the past years, I amassed quite the collection of (mostly unuseful) wifi cards so I dumpster dived into the box. Sadly, all I found were:
A handful of AR5B95's (Atheros 9285)
1 AR5B225 (Atheros 9485 + Bluetooth)
1 AR5B195 (Atheros 9285 + Bluetooth)
1 AR5B97 (Atheros 9287)
Sadly, none of these pass the whitelist, and of the list and according to this only the AR5B85, AR5B195 and the AR5B97 work on OS X with some patches.
So, I went a bit on the nerd-mode (and I guess a bit way over my head) and got Andy's Phoenix BIOS Editor to decompile F60's BIOS and extracted the WIFI Module. Opened the module on a hex editor and started searching for PCI IDs. What I found was:
Broadcom:
14E4:4353 1509103C - 0A - BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n WMIB-275N Half-size Mini PCIe Card (Dell 1520 and Airport Extreme have same vendor/dev id but different subvendor id)
14E4:4353 1510103C - 0A - BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n
14E4:4727 145C103C - 0A - BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter
INTEL:
8086:0082 8086:1301 - 0A - Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] AGN
8086:0082 8086:1306 - 0A - Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] ABG
8086:0083 8086:1305 - 0B - Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] BGN
8086:0083 8086:1306 - 0B - Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] BG
8086:0084 8086:1315 - 0B - Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] BGN
8086:0084 8086:1316 - 0B - Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] BG
8086:0085 8086:1311 - 0A - Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] AGN
8086:0085 8086:1316 - 0A - Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] ABG
8086:422B 8086:1101 - 0B - Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3X3 AGN
8086:4238 8086:1111 - 0B - Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3X3 AGN
Atheros:
168C:0030 1627103C - 0F - AR5BHB112 - AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter AR9380/HB112 802.11abgn 3×3 Wi-Fi Adapter
(Same Ven/Dev ID as DWA-566 Desktop Adapter and Killer Wireless-N 1102 & 1103).
I'm guessing these are the allowed cards, but what I can't figure out is the byte next to the PCI ID. For Broadcom is was 0x0A, for the Intel crappy cards it varied between 0x0A & 0x0B and the Atheros was 0x0F. Then again I don't know how significant it might be or not.
Since none of my cards are in that list, I'm going to try and rebrand the AR9287 to the PCI ID of the AR9380 and I'll report.
If it works, I'll post how I did it, and even if it's all in vain and I do have to buy one from eBay whenever I get money, at least the post serves the purpose of listing the allowed cards in 8460p's F60 BIOS.
Also, one more question, is the F20 Bios also RSA encrypted?
So I got a Elitebook 8460p which unfortunately came with a Intel 6205 Wifi
Even so, a couple of hours I received it, I had OS X 10.10 running on it (thanks nguyen for PBI!), and I started working thru the good old RJ45 cable. But the WIFI not working was killing me, so went and opened my wallet and it was pretty much empty, so the chances of me ordering a working card (that passes the whitelist and works in OS X) were (and are) kinda null.
Since I do a few computer fixes here and there and have done for the past years, I amassed quite the collection of (mostly unuseful) wifi cards so I dumpster dived into the box. Sadly, all I found were:
A handful of AR5B95's (Atheros 9285)
1 AR5B225 (Atheros 9485 + Bluetooth)
1 AR5B195 (Atheros 9285 + Bluetooth)
1 AR5B97 (Atheros 9287)
Sadly, none of these pass the whitelist, and of the list and according to this only the AR5B85, AR5B195 and the AR5B97 work on OS X with some patches.
So, I went a bit on the nerd-mode (and I guess a bit way over my head) and got Andy's Phoenix BIOS Editor to decompile F60's BIOS and extracted the WIFI Module. Opened the module on a hex editor and started searching for PCI IDs. What I found was:
Broadcom:
14E4:4353 1509103C - 0A - BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n WMIB-275N Half-size Mini PCIe Card (Dell 1520 and Airport Extreme have same vendor/dev id but different subvendor id)
14E4:4353 1510103C - 0A - BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n
14E4:4727 145C103C - 0A - BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter
INTEL:
8086:0082 8086:1301 - 0A - Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] AGN
8086:0082 8086:1306 - 0A - Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] ABG
8086:0083 8086:1305 - 0B - Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] BGN
8086:0083 8086:1306 - 0B - Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] BG
8086:0084 8086:1315 - 0B - Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] BGN
8086:0084 8086:1316 - 0B - Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] BG
8086:0085 8086:1311 - 0A - Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] AGN
8086:0085 8086:1316 - 0A - Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] ABG
8086:422B 8086:1101 - 0B - Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3X3 AGN
8086:4238 8086:1111 - 0B - Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3X3 AGN
Atheros:
168C:0030 1627103C - 0F - AR5BHB112 - AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter AR9380/HB112 802.11abgn 3×3 Wi-Fi Adapter
(Same Ven/Dev ID as DWA-566 Desktop Adapter and Killer Wireless-N 1102 & 1103).
I'm guessing these are the allowed cards, but what I can't figure out is the byte next to the PCI ID. For Broadcom is was 0x0A, for the Intel crappy cards it varied between 0x0A & 0x0B and the Atheros was 0x0F. Then again I don't know how significant it might be or not.
Since none of my cards are in that list, I'm going to try and rebrand the AR9287 to the PCI ID of the AR9380 and I'll report.
If it works, I'll post how I did it, and even if it's all in vain and I do have to buy one from eBay whenever I get money, at least the post serves the purpose of listing the allowed cards in 8460p's F60 BIOS.
Also, one more question, is the F20 Bios also RSA encrypted?