M6300 PCI WWAN & WLAN

Ahnjoan Amous ahnjoan at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 02:15:43 CDT 2008


Does anyone have an internal WWAN and internal WLAN card in their
M6300?  I ASSumed that this was possible based on my cursory review of
the machines options when I purchased mine.  I didn't choose the WWAN
card when I ordered mine, but assumed all I would need to do is
purchase the card down the road when I wanted it.

I foolishly purchased an internal WWAN card (paid a friend the
difference for the card when he got his new D630) without checking if
my new M6300 had any extra internal PCI slots.  After the card arrived
I found that the machine doesn't look like it has the room for an
internal WWAN card, and no antenna wiring harness is hanging around
loose in the machine, and the config page only has an option for an
external WWAN card.  I have the iwl4965 card in the only PCI slot in
the machine(at least from what I can tell).  There is (under the
keyboard) a slot that looks to be the same size as the iwl4965 and the
WWAN card but its labeled (FCM).

When I put the WLAN or WWAN card in the FCM slot neither show up using
lspci, and when I put the WWAN card in the regular PCI slot it doesn't
show up under lspci.

Is it possible to use the FCM slot as a normal PCI slot so that I
could start figuring out how to build an antenna to route around the
monitor?

FYI - I have tried the USB type Verizon WWAN cards previously and in
my opinion get much much better performance with the internal cards.
I assume this is because the antenna is much larger when built in to
the screen.

Thanks for any suggestions.
Ahnjoan



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