Mounting the mini pci antenna inside the 240 should be good enough. It's not necessary to attach it to the keyboard, and it would be an extra hassle the next time you need to remove the keyboard. You can just route the wire around the chassis where space is available. I did this on an X32 and the reception range with the a-b-g card is excellent.
On 8/15/2010 7:42 AM, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi I put a Intel 2200BG mini-pci in my 240X yesterday and it works fine but it has no antenna so range is very short. I have two options, buy a mini-pci antenna and mount it inside the machine some where, probably attach it the keyboard as it has a large metal surface. The other thing I had seen is a 'pigtail' cable. It has a mini-pci connector on one end and has a normal desktop antenna connector on the other end. You then attach a large antenna like you would find on a desktop machine or on the back of a router like a D-Link or other with detachable antenna. This would obviously need fixing in somehow and from what I have seen is mounted through the modem port which is now redundant. What would be the best way to go. I installed the mini-pci card because I wanted to free up the PCMCIA slot so I would like to get this work. Any advice. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 240X running Linux Mint 9 LXDE& Windows XP Home - Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
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