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Non news item, most laptops' BIOS has a PCIe whitelist for wireless cards as a way to make sure FCC doesn't come after them for users retrofitting cell modems /
by karpouzi9 3y ago
Non news item, most laptops' BIOS has a PCIe whitelist for wireless cards as a way to make sure FCC doesn't come after them for users retrofitting cell modems / arbitrary antennas. You can hack the BIOs to bypass the whitelist with a couple hours of work.
- dmitrygr 3y agoThat is NOT at all what the article talks about.
- karpouzi9 3y ago[dead]
- jeroenhd 3y agoThe whitelist seems to be on the network card side this time, not on the shitty laptop side. It could just be bad firmware from Intel running into trouble if the hardware doesn't get the initialised right; I'd expect the card to simply not function in case of an intended whitelist, rather than refuse to let the system POST like shown in the Twitter thread.
- karpouzi9 3y ago[dead]