Installing a wireless card Intel AC 7260 in a HP EliteBook 8760w

[huotg01]

Hello.

I'm new here, on this forum.

Recently I wanted to install the wireless card Intel AC 7260 in my computer...

At first I was "naive" and thought it would be easy but, "thanks" to the whitelists, it was quite hard, almost impossible for me.

I have a :

• HP EliteBook 8760w.
  

• Bios: 68SAD Ver. F.40
  
• CPU: i7-2820QM
  

Is there something I can do to override the limitation related to the installation of the AC7260 wireless card despite the efforts of HP to prevent me from doing it?

Thanks,

GH

[Tech Inferno Fan]

Sandy Bridge Elitebooks have the wifi whitelist. HP have surpised us by removing that the wifi whitelist on Ivy Bridge Elitebooks, certainly the 2570P and 8470P/8570P. Means I and other 2570P owners have been able to install AC7260 or BCM4352 802.1AC wifi cards.

Otherwise it's pretty hopeless. As soon as the BIOS detects a non-whitelisted card it will halt with an error. The BIOS is RSA protected meaning it's near-on impossible to modify the whitelist. The experts have long ago given up on trying with the Sandy Bridge Elitebooks because of this.

Solution? Consider getting a 8770W if you absolutely must have the AC7260 working via the internal mPCIe slot in a similar system. Otherwise consider hosting the AC7260 on your 8760W externally via some sort of expresscard-to-mPCIe adapter. You could ask very nicely for HP to remove the whitelist for you too though I doubt they have interest in doing that.

[huotg01]

Tech Inferno Fan said:

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Otherwise it's pretty hopeless. As soon as the BIOS detects a non-whitelisted card it will halt with an error. The BIOS is RSA protected meaning it's near-on impossible to modify the whitelist. The experts have long ago given up on trying with the Sandy Bridge Elitebooks because of this.

Solution? [...] Otherwise consider hosting the AC7260 on your 8760W externally via some sort of expresscard-to-mPCIe adapter. [...].

Thanks *********

1- Just to make sure, it means that nobody succeeded making a custom bios for the 8760w?

2- What do you mean by "some sort of expresscard-to-mPCI2 adapter ?

Thanks again,

GH

[Tech Inferno Fan]

Thanks Nando4

1- Just to make sure, it means that nobody succeeded making a custom bios for the 8760w?

2- What do you mean by "some sort of expresscard-to-mPCI2 adapter ?

Thanks again,

GH

1. Yes, nobody has modified the bios to allow other non-whitelisted wifi cards to boot on a 8760W.

2. MR11 (mPCIe passive adapter)

[jfrost]

Yeah, this whitelist crap is stupid, I bought two AC cards, one for my 8470p and 8460p, I installed it in my 8470p and it worked no issues

So I went out and spent on the money on a AC router, then went to install it in my 8460p today and BAM, no go, I wanted them internal

or I would have purchased a USB one originally.

[error702]

Its been a year still no hope for removal of the whitelist from HP probook (4530s)

I have 3 MINI card dual band and none of them works, all have error 702.

BCM4322 BCM94322HM8L WIRELESS WIFI WLAN MINI PCI-E Card For HP SPS#504664-001 #702 error

New Atheros AR5B95 AR9285 802.11B/G/N Half Mini PCI-E Card FOR Asus EEEPC 1001PX #702 error

[h=1]Dell Dw 1510 AGN Broadcom BCM94322 Half Dual-band N Pci-e Wirless WLAN Card 802.11a/g/n 2.4G & 5G for Laptops & Netbooks BCM94322HM8L #702 error[/h]

I am kind of shocked that there is no way to get 5GHZ band working.

[oliou]

Hello, I have a Elitebook 8470p (bios F.62) and tried to install a BCM94331CD adapter.

I got this message at boot:

WWAN Module ID (703)"Wireless Module not supported"

The System has detected that a Wireless module installed in the system is not supported and disabled it.

WWAN Module ID (703)

Would this mean my 8470p has a whitelist or would it be another issue? Thanks!

[Tech Inferno Fan]

Hello, I have a Elitebook 8470p (bios F.62) and tried to install a BCM94331CD adapter.

I got this message at boot:

WWAN Module ID (703)"Wireless Module not supported"

The System has detected that a Wireless module installed in the system is not supported and disabled it.

WWAN Module ID (703)

Would this mean my 8470p has a whitelist or would it be another issue? Thanks!

The 8470P wifi slot is the half-height one that sits below the full height one. Please ensure you use that slot. Otherwise, you can try isolating the USB pins 36 and 38 using cellophane tape in case your wifi card's has say USB bluetooth that's being picked up as WWAN. The WWAN and wifi slots can of a 8470P can be seen below:

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[oliou]

The 8470P wifi slot is the half-height one that sits below the full height one. Please ensure you use that slot. Otherwise, you can try isolating the USB pins 36 and 38 using cellophane tape in case your wifi card's has say USB bluetooth that's being picked up as WWAN. The WWAN and wifi slots can of a 8470P can be seen below:

Hi, I was trying to mount the card in the upper slot, as it is not a half-sized (it comes with an adapter such as: http://i00.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/32248563172_4/mini-pcie-card-to-wireless-wifi-card-mini-pci-e-to-3G-network-adapter-BCM94360CD-BCM94331CD.jpg).

If I get it right, the half-height port is expecting to get a wifi card but the full-height one is dedicated to WWAN adapters?

It will not work then ...