802.11n upgrade for s10-2?

[cacabuda]

Hello,

Ninjafox, where did you finally put the intel wifi link 5100 (Model: 512AN_MMW) working card in your S10-2?
Is it on the 2nd free minipcie slot?

Thanks

[gbullough]

Just take out the old WLAN card and put the 5100 in that slot. Everything pretty much lines up, even the antennas. Mine's working fine, though not as fast as I'd like in spite of high signal strengths. That's Draft-N for you.

[cacabuda]

Hi,

I know this is working on non empty slot of S10-2.
What i want to know is if it works on 2nd empty slot.

[kostas-k]

Does this card work on Mac?

[keplenk]

Does this card work on Mac?

Unfortunately, it will not work.

[gbullough]

Hi,

I know this is working on non empty slot of S10-2.
What i want to know is if it works on 2nd empty slot.

Pop it in and try it. Of course, the in-place antennas will have to be relocated.

I'm a bit baffled as to why you'd want it in the 2nd slot, though, as the usefullness of two WLAN cards
in on Netbook eludes me.

P.S.; I found a cheap 5300AGN card and it's on its way to me, just as an experiment.

[cacabuda]

Hi,

To answer gbullhoug :
1) I still not have received my S10-2 so i can't try.
2) I want to know if the 5100 works in 2nd minipcie slot, as i want to use Crystal Broadcom HD acceleration in first slot.
(If i put Wifi Broadcom or Crystal Broadcom in 2nd slot i know it will not work )
3) Ninjafox tried 6 wifi cards before making 5100 working, at the begining of the post he said he was trying the 2nd slot, and later he said 5100 was working but he didn't tell in wich slot he made it work and that's waht i want to know

[cacabuda]

Hi again,

Now i received my Lenovo so i can answer CLEARLY to legitime questions.
1) Crystal HD Broadcom works only on 1st slot (the wifi slot)!
2) Broadcom wifi or Intel 5100 wifi card do not work on 2nd empty slot!

So with HD you loose wifi but you can buy a wifi dongle (like Hercules :USB WiFi-N HWNUm-300)

I lost money buying 5100.

One question is still without answer : does minipcie USB wifi card work on 2nd empty slot ?
(I will try to clarify this point later because i don't want to but such card now as i've spent a lot of money now)

[ninjafox]

I'm referring to the "free" slot as second slot, the first slot is the one which is already occupied by the built in wifi card.

so the second slot seems to be locked to any card except some WWAN/3g cards (don't know about pcie-ssd or other cards like the mentioned crystal-HD)

http://www.netbooks.ph/forums/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=1756

Any wifi card you will put in there "seems" to pass the bios check, but it just won't be detected by windows, so I guess it's just deactived/locked by the slot.

also make sure you buy a genuine 5100 made by/for lenovo (or at least the ebay auction should say so or that it's working in the x300 thinkpad).
dell oem versions or any other manufacturer's version of the same card won't work.

the first 5100 I picked was the cheapest offer on ebay (like 12$ - dell oem), the second one said it's a genuine lenovo and was like 24$...
it's kinda strange that it doesn't have any fru number on it, but it works.


PS:

I have encountered some kind of bug, I don't know if it's being caused by some driver conflict or by windows 7 which I'm using,
but when I transfer data over wifi now my system performance drops drastically... it's like 100% cpu load...
Surfing and transferring smaller files works just normally.

[gbullough]

The 5300AGN seems to be yet another card that Lenovo feels it has the right to keep us from
using in the equipment we have bought and paid for.

I must have gotten lucky with the 5100 that I got; it works fine, even though it hasn't got
any Lenovo or IBM FRU numbers or logos on it. I'm only concerned that it probably isn't the
best performing Draft-N card, nor the most power-conserving. Unfortunately, Intel doesn't
seem to make it a policy to issue firmware updates, or maybe they can't, for these cards.

What we really need is what has been done for other Lenovo machines, the CMOS hack to
turn off the restrictions entirely.