Rebranding the Atheros 928x cards - The guide

[RehabMan]

Its showing up as RTL8188CE which isnt supported in OSX. This isnt of any help right? Thanks Rehabman.

shows up as (PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8176)

Nope... no help there...

One consideration: If you already have the AR9280 card... rebrand it as I did for the Lenovo U430 and try it. Maybe by chance the T430 takes the same (Lenovo branded) Wifi cards as does the u430. No harm in trying.

 

[musicthebee]

Sure please. Will give it a go and let you know.

 

[musicthebee]

Looks like some great soul did found a way the whitelist for T430 and this one seems to be in the list

https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thr...-hardware-flash-programmer?pid=68802#pid68802

Can you please take a look? Thanks

Whitelist :

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0089&SUBSYS_13118086
8680890086801113
USB\VID_8086 USB\VID_8086&PID_0187
8680870100000000
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4238&SUBSYS_11118086
8680384286801111
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4238&SUBSYS_11188086
8680384286801811
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0085&SUBSYS_13188086
8680850086801113

8680850086801813
PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8176&SUBSYS_819510EC
EC107681EC109581

8680910886802242

E4145843E4144305

8C162B00AA17A130
seems interesting
9517200700000000

9517150700000000

9517220000000000

EE101220EE100900

EE101320EE100900

86808F0886806042

 

[RehabMan]

Looks like some great soul did found a way the whitelist for T430 and this one seems to be in the list
...
8C162B00AA17A130
seems interesting
...

168c:002b:17aa:30a1

Simple AR9280 rebrand as AR9285 (with the Lenovo sub-ids of 17aa:301a)...

If it passes the whitelist (assuming biosmods is accurate), then it should be able to work with a simple injector kext (such as toledaARPT.kext).

 

[musicthebee]

thanks. I am on it. Will let you know how it goes. I was assuming that I can just use your patches for OSX once I rebrand. Is toledo kext necessary?

 

[RehabMan]

thanks. I am on it. Will let you know how it goes. I was assuming that I can just use your patches for OSX once I rebrand. Is toledo kext necessary?

168c:002b does not require kext patches. Just toledaARPT.kext.

 

[musicthebee]

For some reason I cant write the hex edited eeprom back to the card using iwleeprom. I successfully changed the regdomain but am stuck at writing the patch eeprom. Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[RehabMan]

For some reason I cant write the hex edited eeprom back to the card using iwleeprom. I successfully changed the regdomain but am stuck at writing the patch eeprom. Any ideas?

Thanks

For changing regdomain, use unmodified iwleeprom (no offset/size changes).

For changing ids, use modified iwleeprom (offset=0, size=512).

 

[musicthebee]

You are the man, Rehabman!!!

I have finally rebranded it. Now onto putting it into T430 and see. Stay tuned.

Thanks a lot for the help
-M

 

[musicthebee]

Success. It works great. Posting from T430 with airport extreme


Feels awesome. Thanks a lot Rehabman for your help.

-M