Do Asus laptops use whitelists for WLAN cards?

[sheh]

Do Asus laptops (and K55A specifically) allow any WiFi cards, or are there any whitelists or blacklists?

 

[corkyg]

Can't say for cards - but I set up white and black lists on any laptop or desktop using Mailwasher Pro by Firetrust. It's very easy and you can even have undesired mail bounced back to sender.

 

[FwFred]

He means a wifi card whitelist, which only allows certain wifi cards to be used.

 

[Matt1970]

It should accept just about any Wifi card as long as it has the same connections. If you need to replace yours I bet you can find the exact one on ebay.

 

[RU482]

I don't think so. I yanked the craptastic Atheros WLAN/BT module out of my Vivobook and replaced it with an Intel 7260, no problems...plus way better performance. The 7260 wasn't even out yet when I bought the laptop.

 

[sheh]

I guess I'll find out. There's a card coming my way that was dubbed a Dell card, even though the stickers on it just read Intel. It's always possible blacklisting allows generic ones, like Intel, and disallows ODM-specific ones, assuming they have their own PCI vendor id.

corkyg, I didn't quite get it.

 

[sheh]

This Intel 2230 worked. I'm not sure if there's anything Dell-specific about it, as its description indicated.