Inside an old Netgear Wi-Fi router

[tom66]

A free PCIMIA NETGEAR card! Not some specialised one -- this is an ordinary laptop one... And held in with a cable tie...

This is an ~7-8yr old 802.11b router.

I suppose it's one way of getting a product out quickly!

[luke10050]

Re: Inside an old Netgear Wi-Fi router

well it works i guess, its not that bad of an idea either, a lot of the older ones had it, afaik it allows some upgradability of the modem? or was implemented to use the same PCB for a range of different cards

[pentium]

Re: Inside an old Netgear Wi-Fi router

I love it when they do that.
I pulled an HSPA PCI express card out of a cellular modem.

[japlytic]

Re: Inside an old Netgear Wi-Fi router

I found some wireless routers have a PC Card or Mini-PCI wireless card which did work in a PC; in some cases, the driver INF files needed modification to reflect the IDs on the hardware after identifying the chipset and getting the correct drivers for the chipset - it worked in most cases.
Also, I found a USB dual-band Wireless-N dongle in a Telstra T-Box (Netgem 8000 series) and it apparently did not require modified drivers if I remember correctly.

[Per Hansson]

Re: Inside an old Netgear Wi-Fi router

The first Linksys WRT54G router was the same, had a MiniPCI WiFi card...

http://www.linksysinfo.org/images/Co...RT54G-mblg.jpg

[y_not]

Re: Inside an old Netgear Wi-Fi router

I have some Netgear .g routers like that Linksys, with mPCI.
WGR614 IIRC.

I had no idea the original WRT was that way. CWAAAZYY! LOL

I had a client with an old .b Netgear in their business class metal case, just like the one pictured.
I had opened it up to see if I could detach the antenna so I could disable his Wifi. Silly thing didn't have a soft switch for that in the web GUI.

[ishelly404]

Re: Inside an old Netgear Wi-Fi router

I found an old Belkin router with a similar arrangement. It had a PCMCIA (looking) card plugged into the mainboard and an external antenna connector.

But when I took it out and tried to use it in two laptops, it didn't recognize on either one. I put it in the router again and it worked fine, so I would assume it isn't PCMCIA compatible or some of the pins were switched around, possibly to stop anyone from reusing it?

[Hemingray]

Re: Inside an old Netgear Wi-Fi router

Someplace here I have an old Dell Truemobile router that's like that. Even has a serial port on it for hooking up an external modem?

[dood]

Re: Inside an old Netgear Wi-Fi router

The serial port is most likely a console port for configuring it.

[Hemingray]

Re: Inside an old Netgear Wi-Fi router

The serial port is most likely a console port for configuring it.

I'd have to dig it out after I move, it's currently packed up.