ExpressCard/34 wireless cards?

[Fred Weston]

Some googling says the new Airport cards are mini-PCI express.  Not
too sure what the differences (if any) between mini-PCI and mini-PCI
express are, but I'm sure you can probably find out.

As far as finding out what kind of connector it is, I'd try contacting
some of the wireless vendors such as netgate or metrix to see if they
know.

On 4/22/06, John McDermon <jcm at uclalumni.net> wrote:
> 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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