HP ze2000 versus Intel 2200bg miniPCI card

I buy a slightly used HP ze2000 (ze2309nr) laptop with AMD Sempiron
processor.
| http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2570
Not the greatest or bestest, but it was cheap and good enough.

However, it came with a Broadcom BCM94318MPG MiniPCI wireless card
which doesn't work with Kismet on Knoppix (unless I do battle with
NDISwrapper). So, I pull an Intel Pro2200BG wireless card off the
shelf, replace the Broadcom card, boot the laptop, and am instantly
greeted with:
"104 unsuported wireless network device detected, system halted,
remove device and restart"
Wonderful. Another thrilling evening of maximum effort for little
benifit coming up. Grrrrr...

Updating the BIOS did nothing.

My first thought is that this is a conspiracy precipitated by AMD. We
can't have an Intel chip in the same box as an AMD cpu. Perhaps HP
learned this from IBM, which limits miniPCI wireless cards to only
approved cards on some models. However, that's probably not the
reason.

I did find a workaround, which is not very appealing:
| http://www.richud.com/HP-Pavilion-104-Bios-Fix/
| http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/f...hreadId=567021
Apparently, Atheros cards are also "unsupported".

Duz anyone have any better or easier ideas how to either convince the
HP BIOS to accept an Intel or Atheros card?

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"Jeff Liebermann" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I buy a slightly used HP ze2000 (ze2309nr) laptop with AMD Sempiron
> processor.
> | http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2570
> Not the greatest or bestest, but it was cheap and good enough.
>
> However, it came with a Broadcom BCM94318MPG MiniPCI wireless card
> which doesn't work with Kismet on Knoppix (unless I do battle with
> NDISwrapper). So, I pull an Intel Pro2200BG wireless card off the
> shelf, replace the Broadcom card, boot the laptop, and am instantly
> greeted with:
> "104 unsuported wireless network device detected, system halted,
> remove device and restart"
> Wonderful. Another thrilling evening of maximum effort for little
> benifit coming up. Grrrrr...
>
> Updating the BIOS did nothing.
>
> My first thought is that this is a conspiracy precipitated by AMD. We
> can't have an Intel chip in the same box as an AMD cpu. Perhaps HP
> learned this from IBM, which limits miniPCI wireless cards to only
> approved cards on some models. However, that's probably not the
> reason.
>
> I did find a workaround, which is not very appealing:
> | http://www.richud.com/HP-Pavilion-104-Bios-Fix/
> |
> http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/f...hreadId=567021
> Apparently, Atheros cards are also "unsupported".
>
> Duz anyone have any better or easier ideas how to either convince the
> HP BIOS to accept an Intel or Atheros card?
>
> --
> # Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D Santa Cruz CA 95060
> # 831-336-2558 (E-Mail Removed)
> # http://802.11junk.com (E-Mail Removed)
> # http://www.LearnByDestroying.com AE6KS

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hard..._21527274.html

scroll down to see suggestions, there's a guy who might be able to
assist..........

"StsAlive" <(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

>> I did find a workaround, which is not very appealing:
>> | http://www.richud.com/HP-Pavilion-104-Bios-Fix/
>> http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/f...hreadId=567021
>> Apparently, Atheros cards are also "unsupported".

>http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hard..._21527274.html
>scroll down to see suggestions, there's a guy who might be able to
>assist..........

Been there, done that. The experts-exchange.com article points back
to the two articles I previously posted. Thanks.

More of the same:
http://stachon.webpark.cz/ipw-eeprom.html
Looks like I'll have to do this to get it to work.

Apparently, the officially supported "HPQ 2200 mPCI 3B" version of the
Intel 2200BG card is $114 plus shipping, while the same card can be
found elsewhere for about $30. The Intel Proset wireless drivers (3
versions out of date) on the HP ze2309nr download page include Intel
2200BG miniPCI cards, so one would think that the 2200BG is a
supported card.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...tem=ob-32645-1

I'm going to try rolling back the BIOS to previous versions and see if
the problem evaporates. Apparently, that works for other model HP
laptops. What a huge waste of time...


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