I want to edit the most recent bios update for my laptop and add the new card's device id's to the wireless whitelist. The bios is insyde, and previously downloading a bios update simply gave you the FD file which you could edit in EZH2O. However, the new bioses are giving a .bin file that I'm unsure of how to extract the fd file from. Any thoughts from the hivemind?
Failing that, I could try dumping the eeprom of the HP card, and then write an appropriate code to the new card to allow it to bypass the bios check. I know there will be further issues as far as drivers go.. but I just need help with this part. So far, I've been unable to get the linux ethtool to work for me. Any other ideas?
much thanks
I'm not going to be a lot of help generally, but if your system uses one of the newer Ibex Peak or similar chipsets, the Flash is probably operating in descriptor mode. A quick check for whether this is the case is to look at the size of the .bin file. If it is 4 MB or 8 MB, that's pretty big for a BIOS, but about right for the BIOS and the
That means you need a program to extract and reinsert the BIOS image (the FD file?). I have a completely un-guaranteed set of two utilities to do stuff like that for generic descriptor BIOS images.
http://www.wordmark.org/uefi/Extract.exe
http://www.wordmark.org/uefi/InsertBios.exe
Extract.exe sucks out the binary images that go into the descriptor mode SPI image and InsertBios.exe puts a replacement BIOS image into a SPI image. A third utility in the same directory, DumpDesc.exe, prints out some information about the SPI image. Unfortunately, I don't have any more utilities to help out. But this might be enough.