Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 in a DV6

[ukracer]

Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 is supposed to work in a DV6 according to posts on the net but i have fitted one in my DV6 3150SA and it says wireless module not supported. 

This is before windows even boots.

Any suggestions  please?

[Huffer]

You are seeing the effect of the "HP whitelist" which is embedded in the BIOS of the computer and prevents booting with anything other than a limited number of HP-approved wireless cards. You say the the Advanced-N 6230 is supposed to work in a DV6 but the devil is in the details. It has to be enabled on your particular model. DV6s ran for several years and there are 6 or 7 generations to account for. Assuming you have the DV6-3250us model it is an i5-480M processor and the supported wifi cards are listed beginning on page 23 of the Manual here:

Manual

Intel® Centrino® Advanced–N + WiMAX 6250 WLAN module for use in the United States 619997-001

That must be the card you are referencing and the thing about the whitelist is it cannt be just any wifi card with that chipset as from a Dell or whatever. It has to be that exact HP part number product. 

Several are available on eBay and this looked to be about the cheapeast:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/619997-001-INTEL-622ANXHMW-802-11A-G-N-WLAN-Combo-HMC-minicard/153213021474...

Post back with any more questions and please accept as solution if its the info you needed even if not exactly what you wanted to find out. I did not create the whitelist and it was removed by HP in 2013. There is no way however to go back and remove it from models that had it in the first place. You owners just have to live with it. Sorry. 

[ukracer]

Interesting....much of the info on the net seems to say the DV6 series does not have a white list.

I am actually from the uk and the model number i gave has a typo. It should say DV6 3150sa.

All i am after is getting a card running with bluetooth and 5g wifi

[Huffer]

Again, the devil is in the details. The "dv6 series" is so broad you cannot make generalizations, as it dates back to about 2007 and DDR2 machines all the way to about 2014 and 4th gen Intel Core machines.

The Manual I listed also covers the model you have clarified that you actually have. Also an Intel i5 first gen system.

If you put a wifi module in it and get the "unsupported" stop code pre-boot this means you have a whitelist. The dv6-7000 series is generally past the whitelist but your model is not. Trust me here, we old timers have got the battle scars from the whitelist wars and have developed some knowledge from experience despite HP's lack of transparency on this whole issue. 

We can more than likely find you the right part number card on either UK eBay or amazon.uk if you wish. 

[ukracer]

Hi again.

Yes pointing out the correct part in the UK ebay or amazon would be awesome.

How do you actually find that out BTW.

i also post the old wifi card and the new one it does not like...

 This last photo is the new wifi card that appears to be white listed...

[Huffer]

eBay UK wireless card. This is shipped from USA but the seller will send it to UK:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/619997-001-GENUINE-ORIGINAL-HP-WIRELESS-CARD-PAVILION-DM4-1000-SERIES/272...

You need to know how to use the search feature in eBay and amazon.com and I have been buying laptop parts for years and have accumulated thousands of "Solutions" here so its second nature to me. 

Please accept as solution if this is the info you needed.