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Subject: Re: hack bios hp compaq v3618la
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Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 5:28 PM, lazaax - <lazaax.und@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> hi, people, anyone knows how to hack bios from v3618la or had a bios
>> hacked, i want to bypass whitelist wireless network, i put a atheros
>> on mi hp and cant supported, sorry  my english is poor, i dont want ro
>> risk my computer... please help
>>     
>
> I attempted to replace the wireless card of a similar HP notebook and
> gave up. I suggest you to use a USB "dongle", instead. This is a cheap
> and much safer approach. Hacking the BIOS may lead to a broken
> notebook that can be hard to recover.
>
> Also, this kind of question should be sent to freebsd-questions, not
> to -hackers.
>
>   
The usual way to deal w/ this is to overwrite the pci dev id in the 
card's eeprom so it matches the bios whitelist.  Then map that device id 
to something ath will attach to.  I'm not allowed to give out the recipe 
for writing the eeprom but it's well-known and easily found with google.

    Sam