Intel wireless card with an amd laptyop

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hollywood96

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• Oct 24, 2014

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I want to upgrade my brothers laptop with a new wireless card. will the intel centrino 6235 work with his amd hp laptop. the hardware matches up i just don't know about the software end of it.

 

grumperfish

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• Oct 25, 2014

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HP usually locks downs the wireless cards that you can use in BIOS. Unless the card you want to use is on that specific laptop's support list (if you can even find a list) it won't work.

 

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Arbiter Odie

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• Oct 25, 2014

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Try it and see what happens. The worst that occurs is it doesn't work.
Grumper, I had no idea they did that. I hate firmware lockdowns on laptops, and keep running into it with batteries. Ugh. Makes my life complicated.

 

grumperfish

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• Oct 26, 2014

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It's annoying, especially since they seem to favor garbage Broadcom chips. Dell and Acer are usually better about accepting whatever at least.

 

DeadSmiley

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• Nov 3, 2014

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IBM/Lenovo also have a "white list" of components they allow the user to install.