I have a Compaq Presario V5205NR. I’m trying use a ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini Express Adapter with Atheros AR5006EX (As printed on card AR5BXB6) I and get the 104 error. I have been all over the net and came across the bios fix to the white list. Although I did not find someone who has done this on my lappy. I downloaded all the software and the bios update I needed to take a look. After uncompressing the Bios ver F.23 A and using a hex editor this is what I found.
My current adapter is Broadcom the id is PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4311&SUBSYS_1363103C&REV_01\4&38B5BDF7&0&00E2
I found in bioscod1.rom .
00004550 00 F0 B8 01 58 9A 8B 75 00 F0 B0 AE 9A E2 87 00 .ð¸.Xš‹u.𰮚â‡.
00004560 F0 66 61 CB E4 14 12 43 3C 10 60 13 E4 14 12 43 ðfaËä..C<.`.ä..C
00004570 3C 10 62 13 E4 14 12 43 3C 10 61 13 E4 14 11 43 <.b.ä..C<.a.ä..C
00004580 3C 10 63 13 E4 14 11 43 3C 10 65 13 E4 14 11 43 <.c.ä..C<.e.ä..C
00004590 3C 10 64 13 86 80 22 42 3C 10 5B 13 86 80 22 42 <.d.†€"B<.[.†€"B
000045A0 3C 10 5C 13 86 80 22 42 3C 10 5D 13 86 80 22 42 <.\.†€"B<.].†€"B
000045B0 3C 10 5E 13 86 80 22 42 3C 10 5F 13 86 80 22 42 <.^.†€"B<._.†€"B
As you can see in offset 4580 the id for my Broadcom card reversed. Seems odd to me that the ven,dev,and subsys wound be altogether like that . I have not found that to be the case in other posts I read.
After more searching online I found this.
http://www.modem-help.co.uk/Atheros/Unknown-AR5006EX-11abg-PCI-Ex-MiniCard-Reference-Design.html
PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_001C&SUBSYS_3063168C <<<maybe the id for my new Atheros card.
It wound seem that all I have to do is change the 3C 10 63 13 E4 14 11 43 to 8C 16 63 30 8C 16 1C 00. Then my new card will be in the white list. I’m not sure about that id. I would have to slap it in another pc to be sure.
If anyone can give me more insight on this or let me know if I’m on the right track. Drop me a line .
Thanks OP
104-Unsupported wireless Compaq Presario V5205NR
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by opn6, Oct 6, 2007.