Repairing and Upgrading WireLess LAN mini-PCI Cards

Do you want to upgrade a wireless miniPCI card? Here are links to free do-it-yourself instructions. If you have written a repair guide yourself (or if you know of a report not linked here), please submit a new entry.

For technical details about miniPCI see PCI Spezial Interest Group. Common miniPCI card types are WLAN cards, network cards and modem cards. Often they are built as combo cards. Note: not every built-in card is a miniPCI card, especially in older laptop models. Newer Intel Core Duo or Core 2 Duo based laptops come with mini PCI-Express slots instead of miniPCI!I

Acer TravelMate 426LC	How to add a Intel 2200BG miniPCI WLAN card and an internal antenna (in German)
ASUS M2400N	Changing the built-in miniPCI WLAN card.
N.N.	Adding miniPCI WLAN modules to a laptop (e.g. Intel-2200BG) (in German).
DELL misc. models	How do I install a TrueMobile miniPCI card into a laptop?
DELL Latitude C840	Improving wireless reception by replacing the Dell 1150 miniPCI card with an aftermarket model (Netgate 5354MP) and the addition of a 2nd antenna.
Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook S-2020	How To: Adding Internal Wireless LAN miniPCI card to a Notebook.
IBM ThinkPad	A compatibility survey of wireless miniPCI cards.
IBM ThinkPad A31	Adding internal WiFi by featuring a DELL TrueMobile miniPCI 1400 card.
IBM ThinkPad R31	Explanation how to re-flash the BIOS after changing the miniPCI card.
IBM ThinkPad i1400	HOW-TO: Laptop resurrection and upgrade, battery revival, membrane keyboard repairs, trackpoint transplant, adding USB ports and wireless LAN.
IBM ThinkPad T23	Picture gallery about an installation of an internal WLAN miniPCI card and antennas (in German).
IBM ThinkPad T40p	Adding a miniPCI WLAN card.
IBM ThinkPad X30	How to build a miniPCI WLAN card into the laptop (in German).
IBM ThinkPad X40	Integrated Intel Centrino 802.11b wireless ethernet replaced with a Lucent wavelan miniPCI card.
Sony VAIO PCG-SRX7	How to add a WLAN miniPCI 802.11g card (in Japanese).
Sony VAIO PCG-TR1/B, TR2/B, TR1MP	Replacing the internal WLAN miniPCI card.
Sony VAIO PCG-Z1A	How to change miniPCI WLAN card.
Toshiba Satellite 1905-S303	Sellotaping over pin-13 of the Askey/Toshiba AR5212 mini-pci card to cause radio to be permenantly enabled.
Toshiba Satellite 5100-503	Attach a miniPCI WLAN card.