I currently have an HDX16t with an Intel 5100. , however I don't have support with my wifi card. With HP's brilliant Whitelist, I can't simply swap it out with another one either. My laptop has a secondary PCI-E slot (originally for optional TV Turner), and I was interested in putting in a WiFi card there to bypass the 104 error. I then run into the problem of the antenna cords not being long enough.
So my question is if there is any solution to extend or splice the current antenna cords to enable me to plug them into the secondary wifi card (using the original one is not important)???
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Cut/splice and connect with the same gauge wire would work.
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Your probably better off trying to find a 4965agn or 5300agn that was pulled from a HP laptop. Has no one modded hp bios's yet like they did with lenovo's? Also I don't know if it really works but I thought there was a pin mod to get pass the whitelist block as well.
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Both cards don't work for the MAC OS X... There's a BIOS hack but only for Phoenix installer, some of the new laptops have a different installer not letting you extract the BIOS from the .exe.
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For the radically adventurous DIY'er, here's a fancy little way of working around the BIOS whitelist of NICs, using a kill-switch soldered onto the NIC: Defeating_HP's Wireless Whitelist for Fun and Profit.
And no, I am not recommending this to anyone, period; it's just presented for, shall we say, academic purposes, only.
Any way to extend antenna to 2nd wifi card???
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by chris7519, Apr 18, 2009.