Mini PCI Wireless question

[DeaconFrost]

My wife has an old laptop, which is a Presario 906US. It currently has no internal wireless card. There is a mini PCI slot on the bottom of the laptop, that currently has a modem card in it. I do see a cable connected to this card, but I'm wondering if that just links the modem card to the RJ11 port on the back of the laptop.

My question is this. If I were to get a mini PCI wireless card, what are my chances of it working in this laptop? I'm taking a guess that there may not be an actual antenna, so it wouldn't work very well. I tried finding anyone online who popped a card in to this laptop, but so far, no results. Any thoughts?

 

[ashmedai]

Can't really say without trying it. If the slot hasn't been messed with by the OEM, a bus connection is a bus connection and should work for anything you have drivers for.

 

[PleasantlyBlue]

I put an intel minipci 802.11g card into an older HP(2.4Ghz Celeron) laptop a couple of years ago and bought some internal wifi antennas off of ebay to make the signal strength acceptable. The only downside was the required disassembly of the laptop frame in order to route the antennas.