On 03/10/2011 11:40 AM, RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote:
I guess you do not need that anymore, but I said to check, so... That notebook that was shipped with BCM4313 is HP G62-A10sw. I've taken BCM4313 from that notebook and put it in my cheap adapter. It didn't work (again, all reads 1). It seems that my adapter does not like any AI based card. It accepts SSB based cards only. At least now I know it is not my BCM943223 that is faulty, but adapter. I'm sure BCM4313 is fine, because it works OK in that HP notebook. Bad news: that dumb, dumb, dumb HP has 14e4:4727 (BCM4313) whitelisted, but 14e4:4353 (BCM43224) is blacklisted. Who the hell designed that :|
The lawyers. HP's argument is that it cannot allow any combination that has not been tested for regulatory compliance. It carries about as much validity as Broadcom's lawyers not allowing redistribution of firmware for regulatory reasons. I've gotten quite good at hot plugging the PCIe card while at the GRUB prompt. Someday, I'll get mad enough to rewrite that part of the BIOS.
Other than these screwy BIOS problems, I like HP laptops, but I don't think I'll get another of theirs due to this whitelisting problem. I think Dell does not have this difficulty. Unfortunately, they seem to offer very few setups with AMD processors - my choice.
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