E6410 - any internal USB ports or headers?

I'm a bit interested in seeing if I can put the micro receiver for my Logitech mouse somewhere inside my E6410's enclosure. I've added micro receivers for stuff before to an eeePC 701, because I was able to connect a small USB board to the header on the motherboard originally used for the webcam.

Is there something similar that could be done to an E6410? Anyone tried this before?

 

I couldn't advise as to the feasibility of this, but I'm sure it would void your warranty.

 

Well, I took off the bottom plate tonight to have a quick look at the motherboard and noticed I've got two open miniPCI-e slots - one for the Dell On Flash card and one for a WWAN card.

Do the miniPCI-e slots just show up as expansion slots to the BIOS and OS? If that's the case, I could use something like this to very quickly, easily, and non-destructively make my micro receiver internal.

Thoughts?

 

I've put a WLAN card in the WWAN slot and it worked fine, but other than that, I can't say. If having the receiver internal is that important, I supposed it wouldn't hurt to give it a try.

 

Using an adaptor in one of the PCIe slots may well work but one potential problem is that the metal in the Latitude's chassis may block the signal. This problem wouldn't happen with a netbook's plastic construction. It may be possible to simulate this problem by wrapping some metal foil around the receiver.

John

 

Did you ever do the project?

 

I was just thinking of doing this very exact thing the other day.