On 2012-12-07, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 04 Dec 2012 15:30:04 Dustin C. Hatch wrote: >> On 12/4/2012 06:11, Florian Philipp wrote: >> > Do you actually need broadcom-sta anymore? With the recent kernel >> > updates more chips work with the in-kernel driver (brcmsmac). But the >> > config option is well hidden (you need to enable BCMA to even see it). >> >> Yes, I initially tried the b43 driver, which worked, but consistently >> dropped about 5-15% of packets, making it mostly unusable. I also tried >> bcrmsmac and bcrmfmac, and neither of them supported my card (432b). >> Unfortunately, I can't get a different card, either, because I my >> notebook has a "whitelist" of supported devices in the BIOS, and it >> won't even boot with a mini-pci-e card installed that isn't in that >> list. Thanks, HP :( > > This sounds scary!!! Isn't there a way of disabling this feature in > the BIOS?
With HP, you don't even get a BIOS setup. You get something that tells you the processor temperature and possibly lets you change the boot order. > Have you spoken to the HP police to ask what they can do to allow you to > manage the machine you bought from them? O_O I guess I could do that too. I find it a bit annoying that they don't even offer a BIOS setup and then decide to silently flip some of the settings with BIOS upgrades (like disabling AMD-V...) -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
