These Wi-Fi boards are harder to get. At eBay, I found two offerings which are both from China. Might be problematic but I'm not sure. This the link to one of them: https://ebay.us/PdmjPl AR2413 is the chip that needs to be on the card because it's the only one the Squeezebox firmware supports. It is also important that you use the MiniPCI variant, avoid the ones for MiniPCI-e / MiniPCI-x and/or "half size". They are incompatible. There are only very few different models with AR2413 and classic MiniPCI. Compared to the PC world, MiniPCI is the analogy of PCI whereas MiniPCI-e or -x is for PCI-express so it's more modern and electrically a different design. I think that MiniPCI Wi-Fi boards may have been used in older notebooks, too. So it's rather generic, not something specifically designed for Squeezeboxes. I have only ever seen three different ones that fit. Sorry, could only find two in my collection right now:
32590 32591 A peek under the hood reveals that the PCB layout is mostly identical in both. Main differences are in the power supply sections. The blue one features a useful silk screen whereas the green one seems to be from Apple :rolleyes: 32592 A closeup of the chip in question: 32593 Which also sorts out the myth about AR2431 and AR2413. It's clearly AR2413 as we can see here. I confused this myself in my blog and just went and corrected it. Pity! But it really needs to pop the shields and look closely. I guess the stickers on the backof the cards are more helpful than what is in the front-side silk screen for finding anything similar on the market. I remember purchasing a pack of 10 of these blue cards for around 20 EUR. But that was years ago. For comparison, here is a MiniPCI-x half-length card that _won't_fit_ even if the chip used is the same: 32589 The size of these cards is only about 1/3 to 1/4 of the one we need, and the card-edge connector is totally different. If you can get a hold of the blue model, that's definitely the newer one and a better design in my opinion. For instance, it does not need that hefty voltage regulator that the old card has which spreads a lot of heat, i.e. is wasting energy. Hope this helped a bit. Please keep us informed how your story goes on. Thanks! :D +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: AR2413.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=32593| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ PN me if your Boom / Classic / Transporter display has issues! Blog: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?rinli=1&pli=1&blogID=5053304027701850753#allposts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JoeMuc2009's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23131 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109775 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
