From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Hacking PCI-ids to allow Atheros NIC into Lenovo laptop.
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:52:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5E7031.4000401@candelatech.com> (raw)
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?
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next reply other threads:[~2012-03-12 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-12 21:52 Ben Greear [this message]
2012-03-12 22:13 ` Hacking PCI-ids to allow Atheros NIC into Lenovo laptop Florian Fainelli
2012-03-12 22:16 ` Julian Calaby
2012-03-12 22:32 ` Christian Lamparter
2012-03-12 22:36 ` Ben Greear
2012-03-13 0:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-03-13 0:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-03-13 1:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-03-21 5:01 ` Adrian Chadd
2012-03-21 11:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-03-13 0:58 ` Ben Greear
2012-03-13 3:13 ` Julian Calaby
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