I have been searching for a mini PCIe wireless card for my partner's laptop that works with free drivers and firmware but also works with the hardware. It is an HP Pavilion dv4-1275mx. Chris from ThinkPenguin kindly suggested a USB device. But the laptop has only 2 USB ports and she is always low on USB ports even when she bought a USB hub.
I found this website: http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/7681-This-is-no-request-thread!-HP-COMPAQ-bioses-how-to-modify-the-bios?p=333358&viewfull=1#post333358 that provides BIOS modes for different machines and found the specific BIOS for her machine: http://www.sendspace.com/file/i124m4 The problem with it is that it is a win32/64 program. I downloaded FreeDOS but it will not recognize my USB memory where I saved the BIOS mod. I had the same problem with an installation of Windows on Virtualbox. I have no option but to install a Windows hard disk in the machine and then run the BIOS mod program. Do you see any way I can avoid this? Is there a way to run the program reliably on Wine? Is there an alternative to FreeDOS? Is there a BIOS mod for GNU? -- Saludos libres, Quiliro Ordóñez Presidente (en conjunto con el resto de socios) Asociación de Software Libre del Ecuador - ASLE Av de la Prensa N58-219 y Cristóbal Vaca de Castro Quito, Ecuador (02)-600 8579 IRC: http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=asle&uio=OT10cnVlJjEwPXRydWU3a Todo correo que reciba será tratado como información pública, de libre copia y modificación, sin importar cualquier nota de confidencialidad.
