On 13/02/12 18:49, Nic Baxter wrote:
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:28:42 PM Toby Corkindale wrote:
I built a new mini PC recently, but have had some trouble with the wifi on it. (Asus E45M1-I motherboard)
The motherboard has a mini-PCIe slot which contains an Atheros Azurewave wifi card. (it comes out of the factory with this card)
Hi Toby I've checked the asus website and had a look at the only E45M1-1 listed which is the E45M1-M PRO with AMD Fusion dual-core APU motherboard with support for DirectX 11.
Have a look at this page: http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_CPU_on_Board/E45M1I_DELUXE/ In the main photo, you can see in the (roughly) top-right corner, between the DRAM and PCIE slots, there's a small silver board. That's the wifi card, and it's plugged into a mini-PCIe slot. They don't mention the slot on the specifications, you're right.
However the spec list does not include a mini-PC1e slot. The only ones are 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 mode) 1 x PCIe 2.0 x1 () 2 x PCI ()
I understand there are adapters that will let you plug a mini-PCie card into a PC1e slot but possibly they need specially drivers to cover the addressing.
Ah OK, so it's not so simple. ta, Toby