I was wondering if anyone tried to use a bloothtooth pc card adapter.  I search around the internet and didn’t find anything that didn’t go past the slot and sitck out.

http://www.expansys-usa.com/product.asp?code=105311

The reason I wanted to do it this way.  I thought it would be hella lot easier install.

damn.. almost the price of the bt module. :ph34r:

[quote author=“Chris687”]I was wondering if anyone tried to use a bloothtooth pc card adapter.  I search around the internet and didn’t find anything that didn’t go past the slot and sitck out.

http://www.expansys-usa.com/product.asp?code=105311

The reason I wanted to do it this way.  I thought it would be hella lot easier install.

Has to stick out… antenna.

if its going to stick out anyways..might as well get your self one of these

i guess it don’t look as bad if they can make the antenna stick out like the Sony PCWA-300S 802.11g PC Card

Caught my eye too. I think you might even get the notebook in a sleeve without snagging or worrying about the adapter getting dinged.

Ok I found a card with a retractable antenna.  I am wondering if you would even need it for like mice and things that are close by?

http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?tab=features&pathtype=purchase&sku=3CRWB6096B

[quote author=“Chris687”]Ok I found a card with a retractable antenna.  I am wondering if you would even need it for like mice and things that are close by?

http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?tab=features&pathtype=purchase&sku=3CRWB6096B

The odds are pretty good that it would work. Worst case you extend the antenna and retract after.

There’s a 10% buy.com code floating around here somewhere making this a fair deal, shipped:

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10342604&loc=101&sp=1

[quote author=“dbs”][quote author=“Chris687”]Ok I found a card with a retractable antenna.  I am wondering if you would even need it for like mice and things that are close by?

http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?tab=features&pathtype=purchase&sku=3CRWB6096B

The odds are pretty good that it would work. Worst case you extend the antenna and retract after.

There’s a 10% buy.com code floating around here somewhere making this a fair deal, shipped:

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10342604&loc=101&sp=1

Cool- Thanks Dbs.  I know this will help a lot of us that don’t want to open up our machines. 

please take a picture to show how it fits?

I am strugling between buying this stuff and install BT module.

[quote author=“Chris687”]Ok I found a card with a retractable antenna.  I am wondering if you would even need it for like mice and things that are close by?

http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?tab=features&pathtype=purchase&sku=3CRWB6096B

Better call 3com and ask some hard questions. This card may not support HID and a lot of other things. XP may not know how to use it, so you’re stuck with dated drivers.

This card is said to work and comes with Widcom drivers.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5720291515&category=44999

http://www.billionton.com.tw/website/product/index.asp?sid=884081302&m=1&group=Bluetooth

Every place I’ve looked, same complaint.

As i’ve herd the 3com doesnt function when the antenna is retracted. Their same design wi-fi card certainly doesnt.

Or you could try this:

Its a CF card with a PCMCIA adapter and xp drivers, best of all it fits flush with outside of the PCMCIA slot.

I read on a forum that one of these pc cards (bluetooth) isn’t compatible with mice.  I was wondering if there was different types of bluetooth products.

I thought they were all the same?

It wasn’t THAT hard to mod the TR, although it was more expensive for the parts, something like $120? or was it more? it was so long ago… (I didn’t have to pay for it (thanks Dad), but I did put it in myself)

Yeah, I am probably going to do the upgrade.  Just haven’t found anything BT yet that I want to use it for.

[quote author=“dbs”][quote author=“Chris687”]I was wondering if anyone tried to use a bloothtooth pc card adapter.  I search around the internet and didn’t find anything that didn’t go past the slot and sitck out.

http://www.expansys-usa.com/product.asp?code=105311

The reason I wanted to do it this way.  I thought it would be hella lot easier install.

Has to stick out… antenna.

Exactly how does it have to stick out?  They could have laced it inside the PCMCIA card itself.  For internal installation the antenna wire doesn’t have to dangle, so why exactly would the antenna have to stick out.  :?  It wouldn’t have had any interference if the internal installation doesn;t have any and that is with it being within 1mm proximity of the optical drive… and right in the center of everything else.