Pavilion DV6 WLAN upgrade

[wesmac75]

Hello, I have a dv6 product number A1U57AV. BIOS F.19 Win7 64

After many chats with support, I wanted to put my findings out, and ask if anyone has found any solutions to this issue. I was trying to upgrade my Intel Centrino Wireless N 1030 WLAN card with the Intel 6230 Advanced N card. It states in the manual that my motherboard and chipset should support this card. I ordered the 6230 from Amazon.com, and it didn't work. I figured I had a non-genuine part, and returned it. I was rooked into ordering the same card for nearly 4x the price from HP Parts. I did so, and found that the same WLAN hardware configuration error 702 came up before the win7 boot page even came up.

I found through investigation that the part numbers of the hardware are on a whitelist in the BIOS, and if the configuration fits the restrictions, the hardware will work. Unfortunately, I found that there was a mistake in the recording of the part numbers for the WLAN hardware. The 6230 is listed instead with a duplicate 1030 part number. The correct part numbers are as follows:

Intel Centrino Wireless N 1030 WLAN module 631956-001

Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 WLAN module 636672-001

The 1030 card is not cutting it for me, and is ruining what is otherwise, an outstanding laptop. It's like having training wheels on a Cadillac. All that would be needed is to insert the correct part number into the BIOS program code, and I am off to the races!

Can anyone help me? Anyone have anything better to tell me than support did? How do I get this problem to the engineering/programmer level of support? So many questions.

Thanks in advance!

[mithcd]

I haven't seen any post here about drivers. Try to keep 1030 and make sure it has the latest driver. 

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/ProductList.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=321957&pro...

Also make sure to isolate the issue by connecting inf front of the router then gradually increase the distance until the performance goes undesirable. 

[wesmac75]

The drivers are all up to date, but that's not really the issue.  The issue is that I should be able to upgrade my wifi card to an approved, whitelisted card.  I cannot.  I need a firmware update where the part number is not juxtaposed.  The upgraded card would have the 5GHz N coverage I need.

Thanks for the response!