Mini PCI Card
As for degree of difficulty, I suggest the card is easy if you are careful not to force plastics. The plastic on most T-41's has become brittle and will easily crack or even snap in two. The Jack requires that you be experienced in soldering electronics, and that you have a good iron or a cold solder iron. For the other components... daughter card and PCI adapters, they are identified by code embossed on parts, and by the information on the largest chips. You can tell a lot by looking carefully at the configurations details for that Type Number. ________ If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you are old. . . . . . . . . . Will Rogers On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Timothy Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 02 February 2009 13:19:54 [email protected] wrote: > > > > > But if you bought it online, many have been upgraded. Somebody has > > > > been selling G cards on eBay for $9.98 for a long time now. > > > > > > How hard are they to install, please, on a scale of 1 to 10? > > > Removing keyboard = 4. > > > Replacing power jack = 11 > > > > You mean for swapping the wireless cards? On the T41, I'd say grade 5 in > > the graduation you suggest. > > You remove keyboard and palm rest, remove the wireless card, > > CAREFULLY remove the two aerial cables, attach them to the new card, > > insert card, and then put back the other things removed. > > > > The IBM Hardware Maintenance Manual for T41 with the full instructions is > > here: > > ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/39t6192_01.pdf > > I did look at the hardware manual, but I'm not quite sure > which is the relevant part. > Is it the "Mini PCI adaptor" or the "Modem daughter card"? > > I don't actually have a WiFi card in this T43 (I do in other T43's). > As far as I can see (from Linux lspci) I have a modem controller: > Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) > AC'97 Modem Controller > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
