Using the WWAN-Port of the 2710p as a mPCI-E slot

[FrozenLord]

After looking around the Internet a bit more, I found a mPCIe card that works
Therefore: no fiddling needed, to get a USB device connected to the connector.

The card I found is a Delock WLAN card, the SKU is 95801.
It uses the "Ralink RT2571W" and provides 802.11b/g connectivity - so no 802.11n but that's fine with me as long as it's internal.
I've already got mine and it works flawlessly in the WWAN port of my 2710p with a modded BIOS (the whitelist-check has been disabled).
The card cost me roughly 18 Euros

A link to the device:
DeLOCK > Products > Industry Modules > 95801 Delock industry WLAN Mini PCI Express 54Mbps

Please note that the specification lists "• Mini PCI Express (USB2.0 )".
(I wasn't sure whether it's a fault or not - and called their support... I strongly advise against it, because he didn't even know about the USB2.0 interface provided by the mPCIe slot and told me that the specification is obviously wrong.)
The card works in the WWAN port and was detected upon booting the PC.
Drivers have been installed automatically (I don't know whether my PC fetched those from Windows Update or had them flying around because of the standard installation).
So far I haven't been able to really play around with it - because I can't disconnect my default WLAN card (one screw has got a damaged head - I have to wait for the weekend to "fix" this problem).

Best regards,
FrozenLord

[nando4]

Originally Posted by FrozenLord

The card I found is a Delock WLAN card, the SKU is 95801.
It uses the "Ralink RT2571W" and provides 802.11b/g connectivity - so no 802.11n but that's fine with me as long as it's internal.
I've already got mine and it works flawlessly in the WWAN port of my 2710p with a modded BIOS (the whitelist-check has been disabled).
The card cost me roughly 18 Euros

A nice solution. Found a US-source for a card based on the same chipset:

US$15 Q802XKG 802.11 b/g Wireless Lan PCI-E

Or in the UK, the exact same card rebadged under the Advent brand:

US$14 Advent 29TW3WL0010

[FrozenLord]

Thank you for providing the DIYViDock tutorial
I successfully installed the Broadcom decoder card in the WLAN port - and it's working just fine (after applying the anti-whitelisting functions of DIYViDock).
The WLAN card (in the WWAN port) is also functioning as expected.
So if anyone is looking for such a WLAN-card, I can recommend it!

[nando4]

Originally Posted by FrozenLord

Thank you for providing the DIYViDock tutorial
I successfully installed the Broadcom decoder card in the WLAN port - and it's working just fine (after applying the anti-whitelisting functions of DIYViDock).
The WLAN card (in the WWAN port) is also functioning as expected.
So if anyone is looking for such a WLAN-card, I can recommend it!

Great work!! I just wanted to highlight that you may not even need DIY ViDock Setup 1.x to do the anti-whitelisting. The pcieport.p2 file that you have could be used to do the antiwhitelisting in Windows or could generate a new pcieport.p2 to use from within Windows. Here's how (0:1c.1 is port2):

0. Disable your pci-e port 2 using setPLL's devset

devset disable "[hwID of port2]"

1. Save your port with wifi card inserted. I disable the BARS to ensure no conflict when it loads. I'm assuming Win7 will then perform a reallocation of the port based on underlying device needs.

rw /command=saveport.rw

where saveport.rw contains

:: Disable I/O register
>wpcie  0 0x1c 1 0x4 0
:: Clear BARs
>wpcie32  0 0x1c 1 0x20 0
>wpcie32  0 0x1c 1 0x24 0
>wpcie32  0 0x1c 1 0x30 0
>wpcie32  0 0x1c 1 0x34 0
>wpcie32  0 0x1c 1 0x38 0
>wpcie32  0 0x1c 1 0x3C 0
:: Enable I/O command register
>wpcie  0 0x1c 1 0x4 6
:: Save 4KB pci-e port dump
>SAVE pcieport.p2 PCI 0 0x1c 1 
>rwexit

2. Load port2 PCI dump using r-w everything.

rw /command=nowhite.rw

where nowhite.rw contains

>LOAD pcieport.p2 PCI 0 0x1c 1 
>rwexit

3. Enable pci-e port2 using devset

devset enable "[hwID of port2]"

4. Scan your PCI BUS to detect and use your Broadcom HD decoder

devset rescan

Only dilemma might be if you get an error 12 against the Broadcom HD decoder. In which case you may want to do a manual PCI allocation of port2's resources to accomodate it.

Anyway.. the above should be doable as a batch file so can be placed in your startup folder to automatically enable your HD decoder on startup. Same script would need to run after a resume-from-sleep/hibernate. Can easily do that by usung setPLL's automated\resume-setPLL.vbs

[FrozenLord]

Sorry for not replying earlier.
I tried your suggestion and either I'm doing it wrong or it doesn't work.
This is what I tried:

I got the device ID from the device manager (the complete string is PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1615&SUBSYS_161514E4&REV_00)
If I use this string and devset disable (your first command), the device is disabled and devset outputs some errors about different parts of the string (however it states that it successfully disabled one device).

Running rw from command line using the "command"-parameter doesn't do anything at all. It simply starts rw. If I open the command line in rw and load the batch file, rw closes after a few seconds. It doesn't display any notifications (device / parameters set successfully - I don't know however if it should output anything like that)...
I can not load the dump of the PCIe port created in DiyViDock manually in the PCI menu, because rw can't load binary files (it uses a binary-ish file type where the individual offsets are saved with each byte).
Just for fun, I created a dump of the PCIe port when booting with the card activated (used DiyViDock for it) and tried to insert the dump when I booted without activating the card. The values seem to go in smoothly but the card is not found (even after doing a "devset enable" on the ID mentioned above and then doing a devset rescan)...
Do you happen to have a tutorial on forcing the PC the find it (or *shudder* doing the PCI allocation manually)?

Best regards and thanks a lot for your help!

[nando4]

Originally Posted by FrozenLord

Sorry for not replying earlier.
I tried your suggestion and either I'm doing it wrong or it doesn't work.

Corrected some details in RED in original instructions. Same details allows me to remove wifi card, boot my 2530P, sleep system. attach wfi and get then get it detected and working in Device Manager without errors. The radio however will be off *unless* I cellophane over pin20.

[FrozenLord]

Hi there,

I tried your method and it works - for a few seconds
Windows 7 detects the card and tries to install a driver (although the card is installed correctly and doesn't try to get any new drivers when booting via DiyViDock).
After a few seconds, the system hangs occasionally - and doesn't recover after 2 or 3 short hangs.

You don't happen to have any great advices, do you ?

Thanks a lot for your help so far!

[nando4]

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