Pavilion g6-2355sa whitelist for wireless cards.

[optiknerv]

"My wireless card is only single band and geting aged, Lets go buy a new one".... and then whitelists came to my attention to ruin it all!

Does anybody have a definative list of what works in this laptop? I wanted to buy a dual band card but the list in the service manual is pitiful! 

I have upgraded the BIOS to the latest version F.26 from the support page. Will this add support for any more cards than those listed in the support manual? 

For reference my laptop currently has the Ralink RT5390.

TIA.

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

Solid information is very hard to come by as the whitelist is now history and HP does not discuss it now and was never very forthcoming. We at the Forum have dealt with it for years and the best we can tell:

1. The "pitiful" list in the Manual is the whitelist, sorry to say and is the most definitive list you will get. You can be 100% sure that if you install an HP part numbered copy of any of those cards the machine will boot. We have occasionally had proof of exceptions to that rule of thumb but not very often and not in any pattern it has been possible to figure out. 

2. BIOS updates from HP do not expand the whitelist.

There are "hacked" BIOS sources out there on the internet and we have had some reports that they work and do not cause other errors. This one in particular, which I think may apply to your laptop but I wash my hands. I would not do it, but I am giving you the choice:

http://donovan6000.blogspot.com/2013/12/modded-bios-repository.html

If this is "the Answer" please click "Accept as Solution" tp help others find it. 

[optiknerv]

Bummer. None of those match my BIOS.