My Dell Mini Forum

Abaddon · 02-01-2010, 09:53 PM

Wow, if the QCom card just works, I think I might just buy one instead then. Out of curiousity, what Dell WWAN software are you using? I would like to make sure I have the same as you are using. Also, if you disable the radio in the software, does your WLAN radio shut off?

frostedflakes · 02-01-2010, 11:49 PM

I didn't try it with the WLAN card installed, but turning the radio on/off in the WWAN software didn't seem to do anything to pin 20. I didn't mess around with it very much, though.

For the WWAN software, I was using the application on this page under Communication for the HSPA card.

Drivers & Downloads

Also I'm running Win 7. All the Mini 9 software appears to be Win XP only, but the WWAN software seemed to install fine. Don't know if it was something I did to get the QCom card working, or if it would have worked anyway. Just nice that it did end up working fine.

Unfortunately the Broadcom HD decoder card didn't show up today, so I'll have to wait until I get back from a trip in about a week to install and test it out. Shouldn't have any problems getting it to work, though, the WiFi card was the only uncertain thing.

Abaddon · 02-03-2010, 06:28 AM

Hurray! I got the Gigabyte GN-WI05GS-RH working in the WWAN bay of my mini 9!

It turns out all I needed to do was keep pin 20 from making a connection with a very small piece of electrical tape over it

I wonder if my card's pin 20 works the opposite as yours regarding the high/low singal? Either way, I'm happy with the solution.

As an added bonus, the Ralink software lets me still enable/disable the radio (for plane trips and whatnot).

Looks like you can add 2 Wifi cards to the list that work in the WWAN bay.

frostedflakes · 02-03-2010, 11:18 PM

Great! Glad to hear you got it working.

djgperu · 02-07-2010, 09:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nd4spdbh

id think it would be easier to solder up a usb wifi dongol to the wwan pcie usb bus then use the internal antennas.

can you elaborate on this?
i also bought a HD Decoder that i will be using in the WLAN slot
i dont think i can solder a WWAN slot ... but i can probably solder a usb wifi dongol
are there any tutorials out there..
or tell us which usb wifi dongol is compatible?