Toshiba/Phoenix wireless whitelist

Discussion in 'BIOS Mods' started by aroenai, Nov 26, 2009.

  1. aroenai

    aroenai MDL Novice

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    #1 aroenai, Nov 26, 2009
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  2. aroenai

    aroenai MDL Novice

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    Anyone? Now that the phoenix bios tool is released I can do it myself if someone can tell me what changes I need to make to BIOSCOD3.ROM.
     
  3. aroenai

    aroenai MDL Novice

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    Surely there is someone out there who knows what to do about this...

    Anyway, I've determined that the possible ids for my Intel WiFi Link 1000 are:
    VEN_8086&DEV_0083&SUBSYS_12058086 (Generic)
    VEN_8086&DEV_0084&SUBSYS_12158086 (Lenovo)
    VEN_8086&DEV_0083&SUBSYS_12258086 (Dell)

    I'm pretty sure its just the generic one but I don't have a way to know for sure since the laptop won't boot with the card inserted. The lights turn on and it tries to read from the cd drive then sits there forever without showing anything on the screen but with the original card installed it boots normally. There is a block of device and vender ids (mostly intel with variations of 3945ABG) inside bioscod3.rom and supposedly this laptop can also have some type of Atheros wifi card too but I haven't been able to find anything meaningful and the drivers from Toshiba don't give you an inf file. I can't find where the subsys ids are, so that's probably why I'm stuck right now but ideally I'd like it if the entire check was just removed.
     
  4. Yen

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    To disable the entire check you need to disassemble the BIOSCOD3.ROM
    Far safer to try is to replace an existing ID. At Lenovo Phoenix there is no check for the subsys IDs.
    Why do you think it checks for the subsys IDs?
     
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  5. aroenai

    aroenai MDL Novice

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    aroenai MDL Novice

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    argh there has to be more to this, there are several other models that use this bios (P105-S921, P100-ST7111, P105-S6004, P100-ST9612, P100-ST9412, P100-ST7211, P105-S6012, P105-S6002, P105-S6014) and have an "AtherosĀ® 802.11a/b/g Integrated Wireless-LAN" instead of Intel but I can't find a VEN id of 168C anywhere in that file. Can someone please help me with this?
     
  7. aroenai

    aroenai MDL Novice

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    bumping from page 2 because I still have the problem.
     
  8. tyeken8

    tyeken8 MDL Novice

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    Yup, I have the same problem with you.
    I have a Lenovo 3000 laptop and hacked the "BIOSCODE02.rom" by the same way as you did(overlay the old ID), then both the new(Atheros) and the old(Broadcom) can't be Authorized...
    Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Thx.
     
  9. 1234s282

    1234s282 MDL Member

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    Wifi Whitelist help section over on biosmods.com :D

    More specialised forum so you will probably get a bit more help there :)

    1234s282
     
  10. aroenai

    aroenai MDL Novice

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    aroenai MDL Novice

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    Can I get ANYBODY to help me with this?