Re: Problem with Intel WiFi card

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <trinity-f73a7c96-cacc-4aab-aa87-1102d0bc06d9-1486985344309@3capp-mailcom-lxa03>,
Rocky Hotas <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost> wrote:
>> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2017 at 8:54 PM
>> From: "Tom Sweet" <tesweet+netbsd-users%gmail.com@localhost>
>> To: "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>
>> Cc: "Rocky Hotas" <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost>, netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost
>> Subject: Re: Problem with Intel WiFi card
>[...]
>> Some HP Phoenix BIOS have a modifier key for BIOS entry, e.g. F1
>> presents a normal BIOS menu, and CTRL-F1 presents some enhanced
>> options.  The modifier combination may be pressed at the main entry
>> screen.  f2 & f11 with or without CTRL may also have been used.
>
>Thank you, I tried but none of these keys (even combined with Shift)
>opens such an interface.
>The name of my BIOS is never written. It is anyway from Phoenix (all the
>pages have the title "Phoenix SecureCore"), and the version is 3.40,
>maybe 2009.

Given that others went through the trouble of writing PCI code for exactly
that machine, I don't think that any BIOS setting will help you. Adjusting
the OpenBSD code could be a fun coding exercise, but without the machine
to test there is not much motivation :-)

christos