On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 06:19:56PM +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:

W dniu 27 stycznia 2011 17:48 użytkownik Brian Prodoehl
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2011/1/27 Rafał Miłecki [off-list ref]:

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I've received mini PCIe adapter to PCIe x1 slot to test notebook cards
inserted into PC.  Unfortunately after inserting my Broadcom card to
it, it is not detected in "lspci" at all.

My WiFi card used to work in "native" slot inside notebook. So if
anything is broken, that would be PCIe x1 slot on motherboard or
adapter itself. I've tested V and GND pins in my PCIe x1 slot, all
work fine. I'll try get some other WiFi cards, to test my adapter
tomorrow.

However, maybe you have heard about some problems with such a
adapters? Can there be sth preventing my card from being detected,
visible?

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Rafał

I haven't tested that sort of thing with PCI-Express, but I had bad
results with Atheros AR5414-based modules in Mini-PCI to PCI adapters
like this:

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/mini-pci-to-pci-adapter-with-antenna-9307

The system either wouldn't boot, or it would boot and the wireless
card wouldn't show up in lspci, so I gave up on it.

That are not good news :(

What I've bought is following adapter:
http://allegro.pl/adapter-wifi-mini-pci-e-na-pci-e-3-anteny-kp13-i1429732145.html

I'm using adapters form http://www.hwtools.net/ , they work pretty well for me,
but they are also quite expensive.

Stanislaw