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HP Probook 4540s - Replacement WIFI Guide with AR9280 Atheros

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I recently had great success with Craigrox guide for the Probook 4540s. Everything except Bluetooth and Wifi works, and I'm not even concerned about Bluetooth, so I decided to get just Wifi working. I looked around and poked around a bit and with Craigrox help I decide to go with this one:

[h=1]Atheros AR5BHB92 802.11 b/g/n Wireless PCIe Half Size Mini Card AR9280 [/h]http://www.ebay.com/itm/230798036698?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

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Here's my guide to installing on the 4540s.

Here's what the card looked like right off Ebay.
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1) Push the two clips outwards on the back cover to remove the battery first.
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2) After the battery is removed, slide the two clips further to remove the back cover.
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3) The stock WIFI card is located down at the bottom, it installs just like a memory module.
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4) Remove the two antenna clips with a small screwdriver. They pop right off the board.
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5) Using a small phillips head, remove the two black screws for the wifi card. Be CAREFUL not to lose them.
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6) The module will pop up and out like a SO-DIMM.
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7) Push the new card in like an SO-DIMM

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8) Replace the screws and antenna clips antenna clips, and be patient, it can be annoying. I used the screwdriver to replace the clips, just put them over the holes and push down gently.

9) I had to do nothing else. When I booted up to OSX, it detected my new WIFI card and I went into Networks and configured the new Wifi connection.
 

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Easy to do...
I'm about to buy this wifi card but as i'm also running with win7 (64bits) my questions are :

- a link for the win7 (64bits) drivers ?
- What is your BIOS version ? Is it fully compatible with it ? (No whitelisting problem)

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I'm using the same wifi, but getting a ton of :
21.186442: ATHR: unknown locale: 69
28.734396: ATHR: unknown locale: 69
35.527505: ATHR: unknown locale: 69

warnings during boot. Did someone try to flash the ROM to get rid of these warnings?
 

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I'm using the same wifi, but getting a ton of :
21.186442: ATHR: unknown locale: 69
28.734396: ATHR: unknown locale: 69
35.527505: ATHR: unknown locale: 69

warnings during boot. Did someone try to flash the ROM to get rid of these warnings?

Mine is unknown locale: 60.

I don't know the meaning... but it works, so do we care?
 
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If can be fixed, why not. The instructions I found on the web were in Russian and not very clear, so I thought someone already fixed that. I have a spare AR9280 and worth a try.
 
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I'm not getting any errors at bootup. Also, it works fine under Windows 7, drivers installed automatically for me.
 
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