Intro

The X60 I’m using came with an Intel a/b/g card which was very old and sucked very much. I swapped it out with the only full-size mini pcie card I had spare: an Intel 5100. It was pretty nice as I finally had wireless N. I still wasn’t satisfied though as the heat output was still high (hot palmrest).

Side note: I installed libreboot before to clear the wifi blacklist.

Process

Since the X60 accepts full-height mini pcie cards, I had to order an adapter together with the wifi card. (It’s a metal piece that screws on the card itself)

Installing on the X60 required no additional taping of any pins. In other tutorials online, some pins of the card had to be taped for it to work. This was not the case for me.

Bluetooth does not work as it is passed trough USB. Unfortunately, the X60 does not have USB hooked up to this particular slot so it is not supported.

Test Results

{% highlight bash %} $ rfkill ID TYPE DEVICE SOFT HARD 0 wlan phy0 unblocked unblocked $ lspci 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 73) $ dmesg [ 4.912119] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 7260, REV=0x144 {% endhighlight %}

Conclusion

Bluetooth does not work, but I don’t care about that so I’d still mark it as a success.