Gee, HP sold off its PC department... Who would have thought that one day, someone over there would actually read some of the complain mails I've sent them
.
Anyway, camiloml: Thanks, your whitelist patch sort of works
... However the wireless is acting up strangely, the LED and the WLAN button does not work and the replacement cards [tried a generic IWL 6200, IWL6205, Killer N-1102 and crappy AR9285 out of an Asus laptop] are all dropping connections randomly and I tried everything I can think of:
- installed a fresh Win7 on a clean HDD with an original Win7 OEM disc
- using only original and up-to-date vendor drivers from their websites
- used u.fl pigtails to connect the card to an external antenna
- put the laptop closer to the routers
- tried several different routers from different manufacturers
[Netgear, Linksys, TP-Link and one from Cisco]
but nothing worked.
However as soon as I put one of the cards in my old Asus notebook they work as expected [hold connection, wlan button works and the LED].. And this includes even that
[censored] broadcom that came out of the dv6.