I am requesting a generous clever person to remove the whitelist in a BIOS. I did give it a run myself, but this is beyond my skills.
It is for a Dell Inspiron 3168. It would also cover the 3167, and several sub-models, so hopefully this can help other people as well.
The BIOS version is 2.3.0 ePSA Build 4304.09 UEFI ROM
"Aptio Setup Utility - American Megatrends, Inc."
URL of BIOS from manufacturer:
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=2try6&oscode=wt64a&productcode=inspiron-11-3168-2-in-1-laptop
I am attaching a copy of the BIOS from the above link, just in case there is a problem with the link in the future.
This next part is a bit of a mess but I thought more information might prove to be better than just the Vender and Device ID:
PCI ID of factory WIFI card:
Class [0280]
Vendor [168c] (Atheros)
Device [0036] (QCA9565/AR9565)
SVendor [1028] (Dell)
SDevice [020e]
Revision [01]
And of course, I understand that things can go wrong. I will be testing first on an old motherboard of the same model first (a crummy one with soldered ram and eMMC, but uses the same BIOS).
Note: I will be flashing through the "Bios Flash Update" feature in the boot menu, rather than through Windows (because I don't have a copy of windows - don't use it). Doubt that will matter, but I thought there may be some reason it might matter that I'm unaware of.
If this works out, I will later of course request a menu unlock. I'd really enjoy seeing what would be possible there. Perhaps even undervolting if the cpu can handle it.
Also, to whomever takes this on: I'd really enjoy it if you broke down a bit of what you did. I'd like to learn.