{"id":280,"date":"2010-03-28T19:53:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T18:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2011-06-09T18:49:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T17:49:13","slug":"intel-5300-agn-wifi-in-fujitsu-u2010u820","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/2010\/03\/28\/intel-5300-agn-wifi-in-fujitsu-u2010u820\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel 5300 AGN WiFi in Fujitsu U2010\/U820"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently replaced the Atheros WiFi card in my Fujitsu U2010 with an Intel 5300 AGN half-sized Mini-PCIe card. The default Atheros Wifi card in the Fujitsu does not support MIMO and 802.11n on the 5 GHz band. This is a real let-down for a (draft-)N card.<br \/>\nLuckily the Intel 5300 AGN is one of the very few cards that are available in the half-sized Mini-PCIe form factor, so it fits into the Fujitsu U2010 and U820.<\/p>\n<p>The process is quite involving and not for the faint of heart. Here are some snapshots of the process:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-280 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0036.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0036-150x112.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0036-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0036-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0036.JPG 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dsc00844.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dsc00844-150x112.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dsc00844-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dsc00844-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dsc00844.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0035.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"118\" src=\"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0035-150x118.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0035-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0035-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0035.JPG 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0034.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0034-150x112.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0034-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0034-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0034.JPG 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0039.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0039-150x112.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0039-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0039-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_0039.JPG 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Some of the pictures show <a href=\"http:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/2009\/07\/31\/retrofitting-the-fujitsu-lifebook-u2010-with-3gumtshsdpa\/\">my 3G\/HSDPA mod<\/a>.<br \/>\nAlso check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.pocketables.net\/showthread.php?t=2527&#038;page=3\" target=\"_blank\">interesting forum thread over at pocketables<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently replaced the Atheros WiFi card in my Fujitsu U2010 with an Intel 5300 AGN half-sized Mini-PCIe card. The default Atheros Wifi card in the Fujitsu does not support MIMO and 802.11n on the 5 GHz band. This is a real let-down for a (draft-)N card. Luckily the Intel 5300 AGN is one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,31,4,19,29],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fujitsu-u2010","tag-fujitsu-u820","tag-gadgets","tag-hack","tag-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katastrophos.net\/andre\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}