4 May 2010 23:06
5 May 2010 00:22
Wireless N card issues
wes smith <james007wjs <at> gmail.com>
2010-05-04 22:22:54 GMT
2010-05-04 22:22:54 GMT
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
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6 May 2010 00:34
Re: Wireless N card issues
G J <iipreca <at> hotmail.com>
2010-05-05 22:34:10 GMT
2010-05-05 22:34:10 GMT
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
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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
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6 May 2010 16:33
Re: Wireless N card issues
Matthew F. Unger <mfunger <at> arbita.net>
2010-05-06 14:33:25 GMT
2010-05-06 14:33:25 GMT
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
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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
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6 May 2010 17:06
Re: Wireless N card issues
James <jucziz6 <at> gmail.com>
2010-05-06 15:06:58 GMT
2010-05-06 15:06:58 GMT
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 > >
6 May 2010 17:05
Re: Wireless N card issues
John Meier <john.meier <at> gmail.com>
2010-05-06 15:05:47 GMT
2010-05-06 15:05:47 GMT
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Matthew F. Unger <mfunger <at> arbita.net> wrote:
BIOS is password locked.
Have you tried the "backdoor" bios passwords? A quick googling hit on a promising site :
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7 May 2010 00:09
Re: tclug-list Digest, Vol 65, Issue 2
wes smith <james007wjs <at> gmail.com>
2010-05-06 22:09:50 GMT
2010-05-06 22:09:50 GMT
the only switch i can see is the touch wifi button and thats the only one that does blink when i touch it. The speakers and other media buttons blink.
I could try and check the wiring on the wifi button. I took a quick look at the bios flasher from hp under immunity debugger to see how/where it verified the pass. It would be nice if i could just forcefully overwrite the bios with rouge data and without verifying the pass. Ive got a little bit of assembly knowledge but Im ready to conquer this laptop. If I break it ill just salvage the workable parts
Had tried cmospwd, didnt seem like it worked just gave me some random unicode dump. I will post the data output later tonight
From laptoprebirth
"All we need from you is the laptop hash code generated after 3 wrong password attempts: "
I dont remember seeing one, but a nice hint!!
for future ref someone linked me with
Quick Google search found a couple solutions for the BIOS password:
http://www.fixya.com/support/t3697651-forgotten_bios_password_hp_elitebook
Which also leads me to this site:
http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http%3A//www.plasma-online.de/english/help/solutions/bios_password_hp.html
Which leads to this site:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd
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Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:06:58 -0500
From: James <jucziz6 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Wireless N card issues
To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list <at> mn-linux.org>
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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.
>
> _______________________________________________
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11 May 2010 17:49
ntfsresize...unbootable
greg wm <tclug1 <at> greatlakedata.com>
2010-05-11 15:49:55 GMT
2010-05-11 15:49:55 GMT
i grabbed a handy xubuntu-8.04-alternate-i386 cd, started the install only to reduce ntfs from 190gb to 160gb, installed xp.pro in the resulting 28gb free space, which boots fine, but on next boot of the original now 160gb xp.home-edition it ran a fsck sort of operation during bootup, and on next boot is now unbootable, complaining system32\hal.dll is missing or corrupt. google wisdom mostly recommends running repair mode from the xp cd, well my xp cd offers to install but doesn't offer any repair option, anyway i found testdisk-6.12 which probably did as much as fixboot would have, checked that the partition boot sector matched the backup, regenerated it from scratch anyway, boot.ini is fine, substituting a hal.dll from xp.pro doesn't help, possibly a new hal.dll from xp.home-edition might work but my bet is that ntfsresize didn't do the right thing with a disk that i'm guessing has a guid partition table. any help or ideas anyone?
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11 May 2010 18:11
mysql desktop admin clients
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome <at> real-time.com>
2010-05-11 16:11:37 GMT
2010-05-11 16:11:37 GMT
Does anyone have any recommendations for MySQL administration tools that run locally on a Windows or Mac machine and connect via TCP/IP to the MySQL server to be administrated? Preferably something even a web designer can use. ;) I'm looking for an alternative to phpmyadmin. -- -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com
11 May 2010 18:18
Re: mysql desktop admin clients
Elvedin Trnjanin <trnja001 <at> umn.edu>
2010-05-11 16:18:30 GMT
2010-05-11 16:18:30 GMT
On 5/11/2010 11:11 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendations for MySQL administration tools that run > locally on a Windows or Mac machine and connect via TCP/IP to the MySQL > server to be administrated? > > Preferably something even a web designer can use. ;) > > I'm looking for an alternative to phpmyadmin. > > http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.2.html It still has a habit of occasionally not working on Tuesdays and every other day that ends with the letter 'y'.
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