Hi, Le 12/03/2012 22:52, Ben Greear a écrit :
It seems we bought a Lenovo laptop that has a BIOS lock where it will only support certain wifi NICs based on the pci-id. It came with an Intel NIC, so at least that ID must work... One way around this might be to over-write the pci-id of an Atheros NIC in it's non-volatile storage to make it look like an Intel, at least until the kernel boots. Then maybe add some sort of ugly code to force the Atheros driver to manage this Intel pci-id (and probably disable the same pci-id in the Intel driver). Has anyone tried doing anything like this? Any suggestions for a cleaner way to go about this?
The only viable hack that I have came to with my laptop (Lenovo X61) is to have a patched BIOS. Fortunately the web is full of such modified BIOSes enabling various features (SATA2 vs SATA1, Wireless NICs whitelisting ...)
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