Antenna lead connectors different size than Atheros

[yamame]

I recently picked up an Atheros-based mini-PCI card on eBay to install in my wife's T30. Works great under Linux and Windows, but there's one catch: the connectors on the card are larger than the terminals on the leads to the internal antenna. I can't be the only person to ever experience this, so I'm wondering how the rest of you solved this problem?

TIA,

Jonathan

[tfflivemb2]

They should be the correct size. If it helps, the first two times I attached the antennas to a wireless Mini-PCI card, it was difficult. Initially, I thought that they weren't the correct size. It was a little awkward, but it turned out the the connectors have to be lined up precisely before they will "snap" on.

[yamame]

Not on this one, unfortunately. The sockets on the card are about 50% wider and at least twice as deep as the ones on the card the machine came with (label says FRU P/N: 12P3657 205).

On the card it came with, the terminals on the antenna leads snap down over the sockets on the card. On the Atheros card, they fit loosely inside them and come nowhere near touching bottom.

Googling all the numbers on the card and anti-stat bag it came in indicate it's a Nortel NTE312AA. I even found a picture of it on a website in Poland:

http://www.interprojekt.pl/katalog/kata ... s5212.aspx

Mine looks just like that, but there's no black thing sticking out of the righthand terminal. Under high magnification, that appears to be either an antenna lead or a very small antenna.

OT, what part of Wisconsin are you in? I was born in Milwaukee, but my parents moved the family out here when I was a kid. I still have a cousin in Milwaukee, but I haven't been back there in over 20 years. I'll say the fishing there sure beats the fishing out here.