Dell Inspiron 1501 Express PCI slot

2007-05-16 Thread Old Ranger

Greetings to all,
Fed Ex delivered a Wistron Neweb CM9 Mini-PCI wireless nic to me today, 
with Atheros chipset.

Made me very happy indeed!

U, now I find that it won't fit in the PCI slot in my Dell Inspiron 
1501 because Dell no longer uses standard sized PCI slots.

They call them Express PCI slots.

My question is this:  Does anyone know of an adapter that will mate the 
one to the other?

-OR-
Am I SOL?

Sincerely,
Z. Wade Hampton
Brigham City, UT

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Re: Dell Inspiron 1501 Express PCI slot

2007-05-16 Thread perryh
 Fed Ex delivered a Wistron Neweb CM9 Mini-PCI wireless nic to me
 ...
 U, now I find that it won't fit in the PCI slot in my Dell
 Inspiron 1501 because Dell no longer uses standard sized PCI slots.
 They call them Express PCI slots.

 Does anyone know of an adapter that will mate the one to the other?

In principle, it should be possible to build a PCI-Express
card containing a PCI-Express to PCI bridge chip and one or
more PCI slots.  I have no idea whether such a device is
commercially available.

In practice, the combination might not fit in the box, and/or
the BIOS might not be set up to enumerate a PCI bus downstream
of the PCI-Express bus.
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