> After upgrading some 1100 and 1200 Cisco APs to 802.11g, I have some Cisco > MPI350 cards lying around. I'm trying to find out if the cards will only > work in APs or if they'll work in other devices (like Soekris boxes and > laptops running Windows), but I'm not having much luck. > > My Soekris boxes are not currently available for testing, and the only > laptops I have that can take MiniPCI cards are still under warranty. > > Most of the info I've found on the web (most of the info was from this > mailing list) describes the problems people have getting the MPI350 cards in > laptops working with Linux. I can't nail down whether the cards in the APs > are essentially the same as the OEM cards sold to laptop vendors. I did want > to summarize a few of the things that I found in case others run into this > situation.
Replacing the MiniPCI card shouldn't void the warranty on any laptop, assuming that you're reasonably careful about not destroying the U.FL connectors. The connectors themselves are not designed for more than a few on-off cycles, but for testing, feel free to plug away. The only problem that I have ever seen with them is that there is no real standard for for where the connectors are on the card, and sometimes the leads aren't long enough. Try it.. Or, if you're not feeling adventurous, mail one of the cards to me, and I'll try it. There's a long history of people gutting APs and PCI cards for their MiniPCI cards, and I think in the overwhelming majority of cases, the cards work fine as MiniPCI cards. -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
