Mini-PCI card with wi-fi N and 3/4G Wimax radios to retrofit

[chuckenheimer]

My A31p 2653-R9U. Are these even available? I do see some 3/4G PC Card / Express card from vendors that should do the WiMax with the PCMCIA port. Just trying to cobble an internal option. Thanks!

[ajkula66]

You can throw in a mini-PCI "N" card - some Atheros-chipped ones are available on eBay - but I doubt that you'll find a cellular broadband or WiMax card in the aforementioned format. I've never seen one, or heard of it.

Good luck.

[chuckenheimer]

Thanks - but that makes me curious as to the hardware in my T61p for the 3G wi-max capability with AT&T and CDMA. I haven't seen what is under the hood but I know AT&T has an external SIM available in the battery enclosure area but haven't an inkling of an idea about the adapter - hard wired, removable/replaceable. etc.

[ajkula66]

I can't comment on your T61p without knowing more details, but will tell you that CDMA is used by Verizon and Sprint, not ATT.

[moronoxyd]

Thanks - but that makes me curious as to the hardware in my T61p for the 3G wi-max capability with AT&T and CDMA. I haven't seen what is under the hood but I know AT&T has an external SIM available in the battery enclosure area but haven't an inkling of an idea about the adapter - hard wired, removable/replaceable. etc.

The T6x/R6x/X6x and above have MiniPCIe (MiniPCI Express) card slots.
Some devices come with one slot (usually the WiFi card), some with two (Wifi and either empty or Turbo Memory or WWAN).
So your T61p has two MiniPCIe cards, one WiFi and one WWAN.

The A31p you were talking about in the first post doesn't have MiniPCIe, but MiniPCI.
You can finde WiFi cards in that format, even for the new 802.11n specification, but there seem to be no WWAN/wireless broadband cards, as ajkula66 said.