ExpressCard/34 wireless cards?

John McDermon jcm at UCLAlumni.net
Fri Apr 21 21:34:08 PDT 2006


Fred,
That's an idea -- back to the days of hanging pigtails out the slot  
or taking a dremmel to the case :(

Now we have to see if the 802.11 card is actually connected through a  
standard mini-pci slot or what kind of connector the internal antenna  
is attached to the card with.

--John

On Apr 21, 2006, at 22:30, Fred Weston wrote:

> As far as I know nobody is making 802.11 stuff for ExpressCard yet,
> but the MBP comes with integrated wireless.  I would assume it's
> something similar to a mini-PCI type device, if so you could
> potentially replace it with another mini-PCI wireless card.  External
> antennas are probably out though.
>
> On 4/22/06, John McDermon <jcm at uclalumni.net> wrote:
>> I just ordered a MacBook Pro -- looking forward to messing with the
>> dual booting or virtualization.
>>
>> One draw back, it does NOT have a PC Card slot. It has an  
>> ExpressCard/
>> 34 slot. Does anyone know if there is or will be any ExpressCard/34
>> wireless cards? Even better, will there be external antenna  
>> connections?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --John
>>
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