Solved (1/2 Negative): T61P Frankenpad: Two questions (bluetooth, pci-e-mini-slot)

[friedrich-eugen]

Hello,

with the extended help of TuuS and RealBlackStuff I managed to prepare two Frankenpads (T60P to T61P/UXGA/LED), one of those is nearly ready and already in use.

Now, two problems I did not manage to solve up to now:
(1) Bluetooth: I had to skip installing a modem (I would not use anyway), but I did Install a bluetooth"card". It does show just a moment at boot (led-signal) but it does not show as part of the system.
Will I have to accept, it is gone or is it just a dead chip?
(2) PCI-E-Mini-Slot für WWAN-Card: I bought a mini-pci-e-card 128GB to install there, but the card is not recognized.
Do I have to swap it for a different kind of card (usb-characteristics versus pci-e-mini-characteristics,
Do I remember the spec right for this slot right, as being usb-style?

Any advice would be appreciated

[ajkula66]

Now, two problems I did not manage to solve upt to now:
(1) Bluetooth: I had to skip installing a modem (I would not use anyway), but I did Install a bluetooth"card". It does show just a moment at boot (led-signal) but it does not show as part of the system.

Modem has nothing to do with Bluetooth on T6x series. If your T60/p had BT to begin with, it should work "out of the box" right now.
Verify that is enabled in BIOS as well. Lastly, boot a "live" Linux CD and check to see whether BT is "seen" there.

(2) PCI-E-Mini-Slot für WWAN-Card: I bought a mini-pci-e-card 128GB to install there, but the card is not recognized.
Do I have to swap it for a different kind of card (usb-characteristics versus pci-e-mini-characteristics,
Do I remember the spec right for this slot right, as being usb-style?

Any advice would be appreciated

AFAIK, you can't use the WWAN slot for a storage card...

[RealBlackStuff]

There is physically no room for a modem in a T601 FrankenPad.
The BT-module is inside the LCD-lid, at the bottom, left of the LCD-cable.
Occasionally these BT-modules can work themselves loose.
You only need to remove the LCD-bezel to access them.

And, as ajkula66 already said, the T60/T61 series does not support a storage card in the WWAN slot.

[friedrich-eugen]

hello ajkula66, hello RealBlackStuff,

well,

I take it, You're saying if it is not "gone off" the bluetooth-card might be gone. I'll see ...

As for the WWAN Slot: As far as I did deduce from posts in the net there exist two different types of slots, one of them is a pci-e-mini-slot, one looks similar (to me), but is not (WWAN: kind of usb-style-slot).
As far as I found out, at least I thought, there exist ssd-cards to go with each of the two types of slots. Am I wrong?


Thanks for Your swift reply, anyway!!

[ajkula66]

As far as I found out, at least I thought, there exist ssd-cards to go with each of the two types of slots. Am I wrong?

Yes.

You can't use the mini-PCI-e slot that holds the WWAN card for anything else but WLAN, WWAN and HD decoder from what I recall. It will not do anything with a SSD. There's no support on the board or in the BIOS for it.

[ilakast]

twistero has given a thorough (negative) answer as well

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... &view=next

[friedrich-eugen]

Thanks to You, all!

So I did trip on a trap ...

Happy trails to You all