[Removed] Acer Aspire One AO722, BIOS V1.04 no_whitelist

[A-Nation]

So I recently found out that when your computer whitelists something, it does so as a bootup message in BIOS, rather than blocking the card's use during a session within Windows 7. I've always been able to start up my OS with the wireless card in the PCI slot.
It's strange though; any intel software I tried to install for the longest time would crash my computer, but after the BIOS mod by camiloml, it doesn't do it anymore. Maybe it did have something to do with the whitelist after all, but I can't be certain.

I have the option to decrease boot time enabled. It skips some checks during the BIOS check, so maybe turning that on will have it catch something it doesn't like.

So anyways, I put vinyl electrical tape on the correct pin like it is described in alhaz's post, and other than giving me some weird errors, the card still didn't work.

So then I decided to uninstall the driver that the card was running on; I had a suspicion that it wasn't fully installed because the last time I tried to install the driver, my computer blue screened and crashed.

Now that any software that I try to install from intel doesn't crash, I wanted to try to re-install the driver on the network adapter. I uninstalled the maybe-corrupt driver on it, and after trying to reinstall the driver using the appropriate software from intel, nothing happened.

I went to uninstall my intel PROwireless software which crashed at the end of the installation before the BIOS mod. Strange thing was, that it didn't show up in the control panel add/remove programs list...

So I just installed PROwireless again and it works fine now. I ran the manual diagnostics hardware check and it gives me an error message saying "Driver version does not support Intel ProSet/Wireless Wifi Software version 13.5.0.0"

Then I tried to use Windows Update to install the driver, it gave me a strange error message right after it says installing software: "The style of the INF is different than what was requested." Another odd discrepancy occurred here; in my device manager my card is listed as "Network Controller" but in the error message it gives the full name of the card; Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 AGN.

I found out from forums on tomshardware that it supposedly just means that your regional settings aren't set correctly. I checked, and yep, everything is in English and United States.

I'm pretty confused. What could possibly not be allowing the card not to work???

I have a similar issue. I'm using an Acer AO722 model610 - which has the new AMD C60 turbo APU. I purchased the Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 and installed it. The netbook POSTs, however it hangs while loading Windows 7 x64. I tried to do a fresh install and again it hangs. I'm able to get into SAFE MODE without networking, that's about it. Anyone have any ideas?

[camiloml]

it seems to be intel measures against amd based computers, that new intel wlan cards seems to be incompatible with amd chipset.

[varnav]

Same problem. I bought that Aspire One 722 and swapped stock card with Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200.
The adapter is detected, drivers are installed ok, but it's not working. Device manager says:

The device cannot start. (Code 10)

Firs I thought that card is defective and ordered 6230. Good thing that I found this thread so I cancelled my order of 6230 card.

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camiloml, please tell, was there any whitelist actually? It's not clear whether this model has any limitations on cards you can install.

[camiloml]

The whitelist is removed, the issue is incompatibility at chipset level intentionally made by Intel in its new WWAN cards.