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New MessageAsus home WiFi adapter has Mini PCI card... (modified 0 times) 02U2
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On a hunch I bought on of these at one of my local OEM's for $20.

http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/event/wifiHome/overview.html?kp=motherboard

Could not wait to get home to void the warranty...

Got it out to the truck in the parking lot and had to open up the shielded part with a BOX knife using it to cut the shield tabs soldered to the mainboard.

Just as I suspected it contained a Mini pci WiFi card.

The antenna cable pigtail (RP SMA on the opposite end) is soldered on.

The antenna itself is black and kinda kool. Needs a magnet on the bottom though. Peeled the Asus logo off the base.

06-23-2004 18:59:05

New MessageRE:Asus home WiFi adapter has Mini PCI card... (modified 0 times) Linuxguru
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So what Asus has done is simply route the PCI signals inside the RF shielded section to a mini-PCI connector, into which they've just plugged in a mini-PCI wifi card. Cool.

I suppose I could just put the mini-PCI card into a notebook, and run the antenna pigtail out through the cutout in the notebook case for modem/ethernet. A little messy, IMHO.

The alternate use is to just use in in a BookPC-type mini-desktop or Websurfer Pro running HostAP/MeshAP under Linux. What's the Wifi chipset on the mini-PCI card? Prism2 would be nice.

06-23-2004 20:15:35

New MessageRE:Asus home WiFi adapter has Mini PCI card... (modified 0 times) rooter66
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Hi,
I just bought this little ones for 6Euro here for my diploma project
and I'm going to hook them to PCI through adapter board and to a MCU.
They use Ralinktech 2400 chipset and the whole design looks nice, but
they don't provide HW documentation, no reply from their support dept.
Anybody had success?
Driver's source for linux available (rt2400 group at sf.net).
10-17-2004 05:45:16

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