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Anyone Know of a USB based 802.11N minicard?

post #1 of 12
6/1/09 at 6:53pm
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Hola peoples,


I am looking for an 802.11N wireless minicard, but one that uses a usb interface instead of the pci-e lanes. This is for a laptop mod, modding blu ray into my laptop and i need the other full minicard connector for a decoder card.

Internal wireless is what I am looking for. No external usb dongles, or pcmcia cards.

This would be a wireless card similar to the realtek 8187B card, but one that does wireless N. The 8187B only does G, not a deal breaker but still want N.


The usb based mini-card looks just like a normal minicard however sometimes not all the connectors are there. This is because the pci-e lanes on the connector are not used.

Below is a tv tuner, but you can see how not all the connectors are there.




There are some restrictions:

No Intel cards will work on my laptop, Have tried 3945, 4965, 5100 etc. the laptop will not post.

I have also tried the newer Atheros AR9281 (XB91) card, just pci-e

The ralink 2920 based cards do not use USB either.

Anyone seen any other card that uses USB?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!
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post #2 of 12
6/8/09 at 9:01pm
This is a brainy challenge. If you couldn't find one, me week-end techie would not have a chance.

What about an internal mod to squeeze in an USB to Mini Card connector? This would force the wireless mini card to use the USB bus line, non?

cheers ...
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post #3 of 12
6/8/09 at 9:14pm
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yeah, pretty much given up when no one replied for a while. besides I don't need one because the hd decoder mod failed so I won't be using that for the full minicard connector.

oh wells.
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post #4 of 12
6/8/09 at 10:07pm
It is a good head up. I did not realise that a mini-card using USB bus lane exists before your OP.

Giving the fact that N is still in "draft", what about the possibility to acquire a firmware update to "upgrade" the g to the n?

cheers ...
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post #5 of 12
6/8/09 at 10:32pm
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since N uses multiple transceivers you would actually need the hardware. firmware won't do it.

like I said, not worried about it. Still got N and a tv tuner so still happy.
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post #6 of 12
6/8/09 at 10:35pm
Cool.

I am not worrying about you finding a solution. I am intrigued about the possibilities and the challenge that your OP offers.



cheers ...
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post #7 of 12
6/9/09 at 12:04am
Out of luck?
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post #8 of 12
6/9/09 at 12:15am
As it stands on my part. Any ideas?

cheers ...
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post #9 of 12
5/26/10 at 1:58pm
http://www.oxfordtec.com/us/MiniPCI-...duct_info.html
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post #10 of 12
5/28/10 at 3:34am
Yeah, adding to this old thread, I saw a mod on an EeePC where someone soldered a bluetooth dongle internally to a USB port.. The same could be done with a small USB N card (you would lose a USB slot)... Just work it out (wiring wise) and take the dongle out of its case and remove the USB connector...
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post #11 of 12
5/28/10 at 10:49am
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Originally Posted by Mr T View Post
Yeah, adding to this old thread, I saw a mod on an EeePC where someone soldered a bluetooth dongle internally to a USB port.. The same could be done with a small USB N card (you would lose a USB slot)... Just work it out (wiring wise) and take the dongle out of its case and remove the USB connector...
Yeah, I've done similar before with a wireless router.

The reason I resurrected this thread was, I knew the answer, and figured someone might stumble across this thread looking for similar info.
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post #12 of 12
5/28/10 at 4:03pm
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Originally Posted by s0be View Post
Yeah, I've done similar before with a wireless router.

The reason I resurrected this thread was, I knew the answer, and figured someone might stumble across this thread looking for similar info.
And that is being appreciated. Thanks.

cheers ...
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