Most newer laptops store the BIOS password in eeprom, this memory stays even when the battery is removed. The only option for getting into the BIOS is send the unit back to the manufacture or pay a company to have the password cracked. The following company does this type of work for a fee. www.laptoprebirth.com.. On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Matthew F. Unger <mfunger at arbita.net> wrote: > BIOS is password locked. > > I did a double-check and it doesn’t look like there’s isn’t a jumper on the > MOBO to reset the password. Shenanigans are hereby officially called on HP > for having to call into tech support with proof of ownership. > > I’m going to go out on a limb and say that there’s something in the BIOS > that is locking the wireless card out. Sorry, that’s all I got. > > > > Cheers, > > > > M > > > > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of G J > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5:34 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Wireless N card issues > > > > Did you check the bios for a switch? i've seen wifi enable/disable in bios > before. > > ________________________________ > > Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:22:54 -0500 > From: james007wjs at gmail.com > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [tclug-list] Wireless N card issues > > I aquired an hp elitebook 6930p with a intel 5300 wireless card. Pulled the > cmos battery to attempt to reset the bios password, but its written to the > bios. I had put windows 7 on there and it asked me for my wireless pass > during install. Installed updates and rebooted and now wifi is broken. Says > its turned off, in both win7 and linux. The little wifi touch button doesnt > change colors, but the other media buttons work for the most part. Thats > about the only place i see to turn the wifi on and off. I tried messy with > the settings and still no wifi. Tried installing both windows 7 and 9.10 > again, still broken. I did put an older intel 5100 in there and it said it > wasnt compatible. I even tried moving the card to the other mini pci slot, > no joy doesnt seem to recongize that extra slot. I might try and put the > 5300 in my asus laptop with a live cd and see if the card is dead. Im sorta > stuck on where to go from here > > ________________________________ > > The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. > Get started. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >