D-Link DWL-520+ wireless card modding

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I recently needed a PCI wireless card and wanted to use a D-Link DWL-520+ for this. Unfortunately, it turned out that it doesn't support WPA2. Closer inspection revealed that the card is really a mini-PCI laptop card installed in a PCI adapter!

Since I had plenty of Intel 2200BG cards lying around, I decided to try and make it work with one. It took some soldering and the antenna cable is a bit too long to fit under the metal shield but it works. The only downside is that it doesn't work with 64-bit version of Windows 7. At least I couldn't find a way to make it work.

Cheers

 
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