I buy a slightly used HP ze2000 (ze2309nr) laptop with AMD Sempiron processor. |
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: |
Duz anyone have any better or easier ideas how to either convince the HP BIOS to accept an Intel or Atheros card?