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A comment on Intel BE200 WiFi 7 cards locked to 14th gen CPU and Z790 chipset.

Re:Intel BE200 WiFi 7 cards locked to 14th gen CPU and Z790 ... by karpouzi9 on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:21PM (#38173232)
Non news item, most laptops' BIOS has a PCIe whitelist for wireless cards as a way to make sure FCC doesn't come after them for users retrofitting cell modems / arbitrary antennas. You can hack the BIOs to bypass the whitelist with a couple hours of work.
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Re:Intel BE200 WiFi 7 cards locked to 14th gen CPU and Z790 ... by dmitrygr on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:35PM (#38173297)
That is NOT at all what the article talks about.
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Re:Intel BE200 WiFi 7 cards locked to 14th gen CPU and Z790 ... by jeroenhd on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:42PM (#38173333)
The whitelist seems to be on the network card side this time, not on the shitty laptop side.

It could just be bad firmware from Intel running into trouble if the hardware doesn't get the initialised right; I'd expect the card to simply not function in case of an intended whitelist, rather than refuse to let the system POST like shown in the Twitter thread.

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