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    Hacking wifi card?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Johannes33, Mar 15, 2015.

  1. Johannes33

    Johannes33 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have an Ultimate-N Intel 6300 633ANHMW FRU 60Y3233 wificard.
    But it wont work on my toshiba since it is lenovo branded. [​IMG]

    But according to some posts on the internet (look here and here) it is supposed to be able to change the setting of a wifi card so it will be a normal intel 6300 and not lenovo.

    The posts I have found are for older cards and not for 6300 so I dont know if it is still possible.

    Does anyone know?
     
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    It is not about the wifi card being a Lenovo card, it is about it not being a Toshiba card. Look up whitelist removal for your specific laptop.
     
    Qing Dao, Mar 16, 2015
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    I think it might be both. Lenovo cards won't run in non-Lenovo notebooks either.
     
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    :)Thanks for your thougths and sorry for not replying sooner I have not been able to dismantle my laptop and try the card until now.

    One thing is puzzling...

    I just tried the lenovo wificard with linux mint on a usb dongle. And it worked flawlessly.
    But under windows it does not work , I just get Error code 10 in the device manager.

    This lead me to the belief that it is the windows driver from intel that is making the card not working not the bios.

    Have anybody found a work around this problem?
     
    Johannes33, Apr 10, 2015
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    That is indeed the case - these always work on Linux but not on Windows. It's not s driver thing though - it's related to firmware of the card and how an OS loads handles it. So no matter how you mod the drivers it won't start working on Windows.
     
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    So just to clarify:
    I could have a whitelist in bios on my computer but in linux it would not matter because linux works in a different way?
    So even if I buy a normal intel (not lenovo) 6300 wifi card I still have to check it against the whitelist of my computer ( Toshiba P750-10R)?

    Also if someone knows... if I run windows in a virtual machine on linux does windows have problem with this card?
     
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    It works both ways - whitelisting means a non-Lenovo card won't work in Lenovo notebook but also because of a different card firmware itself a Lenovo card won't start in non-Lenovo notebook.
    One has to do with BIOS-whitelisting and the other with firmware in the card itself. Why exactly Linux handles it differently - I don't remember - I read about that and found it extremely boring so all I took away from this was the conclusion.

    The question is does Toshiba still use whitelisting? They used to but I thought they do not do this anymore so maybe there is nothing to remove? Do you have any laptops from which you could temporarily borrow a non-branded card and check?
     
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    According to Stack Exchange the white list is hindering bios from booting.
    So if you got a white list then the laptop wont boot.

    Then what is making my windows laptop not work with the Intel 6300 lenovo card is the firmware.
    I will perhaps buy a new card or just install linux ;)
     
    Johannes33, Apr 10, 2015
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    I have Lenovo cards that all work in non-Lenovo computers.
     
    Qing Dao, Apr 14, 2015
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    Under Windows or Linux?
     
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    Probably in a HP machine?
     
    baii, Apr 18, 2015
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