Installing antenna on internal wireless MiniPCI card

I have a used HP Pavilion ZE4610 with an internal IBM High Rate LAN
Wireless Combo Card. The problem was that I was experiencing some
problems with range. With help from Jeff Liebermann it was discovered
to be disconnected antennae. However from what I can see (by only
removing the 3"x3" panel on the bottom) there are no antennae at all. I
want to see how likely it is to install these myself or learn how to
dismantle in order to see if they are there but held up somewhere. Any
help would be appreciated. Basically, I am seeing if it is worth the
effort of dissection or if I should take the external card route.

Go to HP support for the manual or use the link that Jeff gave you on
your previous topic. Read it over to see if you are up for
disassembly. It's usually kinda fun, but precise in places.

Search on google for "antenna + your model". Search on ebay for same.
Find a forum for HP laptops and ask there too.

I would do it. Since you already have the card installed and working,
any antenna will be cheap and useful.

Cheers,
Steve

PS. While it's open, I would also search the FRU shown on the card
(or other info) to be certain what I have for driver downloads.

On 28 Nov 2006 09:08:51 -0800, "seaweedsteve" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in <(E-Mail Removed) .com>:

>Go to HP support for the manual or use the link that Jeff gave you on
>your previous topic. Read it over to see if you are up for
>disassembly. It's usually kinda fun, but precise in places.
>
>Search on google for "antenna + your model". Search on ebay for same.
>...

There are small generic laptop Wi-Fi antennas on eBay that will work
reasonably well without major disassembly.

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