No dice. Same issue. But I think, having tried both WiGig cards, perhaps I can rule out the DW1601 card as bad?
Some close up shots of the adapter's pinout. http://imgur.com/a/J4rVW
Just tried using the card that was in the docking station in the mPCIe to PCIe adapter. I'm getting the same issue.
Luckily the MSI has overpower protection built-in so I don't blow out the board, but I can't boot it up so long as either WiGig card is plugged in. The LED on the motherboard...
Unfortunately, no. And Dell wasn't forthcoming either. I ended up just ordering a full LCD backlid that had the antenna already in it and carefully removed it.
I think it was about $40. Which, despite it not working out for me, is only disappointing because I'm sure the antenna itself only cost...
The third picture is a 60ghz antenna, which came out of a Latitude that had the DW1601 in it. You'll need one of you want any significant range. A typical 2.4-5ghz antenna isn't going to work for 802.11ad.
The old motherboard was an ASRock Z97 Extreme4 (which NewEgg RMAed without question) and...
I tried the same thing. Same mPCIe card and, by the looks of it the same mPCEi to PCIe adapter card.
It blew out my motherboard.
Tried new motherboard and a different adapter card, same result.
I haven't looked at the traces on the PCB, but clearly the DW1601 has a non standard mPCIe...