Hi,
I would like to experiment with replacement of miniPci card in my asus. I was going to order Wistron Neweb CM9 Atheros card. But I'm a little worried about one thing: would the original ASUS pigtail cable be good enough ( long enough) or I need to do some soldering or order a new cable for the new card?
Does anyone have an expirience with Wistron cards?
Thanks a lot
Topic: Replacement of MiniPCI card in Asus wl-500GP
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Hi,
I was adviced to buy this card in this topic : http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=14041 so I think it shoud be ok ... I hope so
I bought this card and I will install it this evening so I can tell you if I have any issues.
Cheers,
Tex
Can you post an URL for the shop there you bought the card? I'm also from Europe and looking for best offers
Can you post an URL for the shop there you bought the card? I'm also from Europe and looking for best offers
Finally I dint bought it online. I bought it for 24€ in a shop in Prague cos I was there for the weekend They don't deliver abroad
http://www.czechcomputer.cz/cat_tree.js … PCI+moduly
Tex
Hi,
well the hardware upgrade went ok even if I ran into a small problem. The original miniPCI is stuck to a kind of black "sponge" which is itself attached to the main board. I cut it off the original miniPCI carefully with a cutter and only then I could remove it.
.The software installation was ok. I first installed Kamikaze 7.09 but I had some random seg faults quite often. You can find some posts about this topic on the forum. I build myself the trunk version and it seems to be much more stable.
http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=15230
There might be some issue with the signal quality which is a bit poor. Again, there are some topics about this in the Kamikaze forum.
http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=15207
Regards,
Tex
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