mPCI-e Wireless ac Wifi card WITHOUT Bluetooth

I have a laptop I'm rebuilding and I wish to swap my Wifi card for a Wireless ac card but so far I have yet to locate a wireless ac card in the m-pcie form factor that has no bluetooth module, does anyone know of one?

 

Some manufactures block/blacklist non certified wifi cards, you need to find out if your notebook has a wifi blacklist and what wifi cards you can use.

Post your notebooks manufacture and model number, If you get no respose here make a thread in nbr section for that manufacture.

John.

 

@FlameHaze what exactly is the problem with integrated Bluetooth? I pretty much doubt an mpcie ac card without it even exists.

 

The only issue I had with it is my laptop already has a BT module

Also it has no blacklists. Thankfully. Its a Clevo. Just can't use a Lenovo card(I know with cards like the 5xxx and 4xxx and 6xxx I could rewrite the EEPROM and change my hardware ID so it went from a lenovo card to a normal card)

 

@FlameHaze If that is your reason, you might as well buy a card with BT and switch it off. I have an Intel 7260 mini-PCI-Ex (coincidentally one of very few ac cards that support mini-PCi Ex) and I just didn't bother installing BT drivers from Intel.
Windows installed some sort of a generic driver and I just disabled "Generic Bluetooth adapter" in Device Manager.

Your choice is limited as it is by the interface and Intel 7260 should be a serious candidate, no point ruling it out because of something that you can simply disable.

 

I figured as much. That's fine then. Was just curious of such existed. If my Bluetooth hardware switch controlled the Bluetooth adapter in the WiFi card I wouldn't mind, but it'll drive me crazy if my HW button doesn't work >.> Thanks a whole bunch for the help, the 7260 is what I was looking at.

 

You never know with the hardware switch. My laptop had a BT module as an option (a BT module separate from Wi-Fi with its own connector on mobo). I chose not to buy one with BT so I had no BT module (yet I had a hardware switch for BT).
When I bought 7260 and Windows installed whatever generic driver for it, the BT switch lit up and started functioning even though BT module was not where it was supposed to be when the laptop had been designed.
I might depend on the software that is responsible for those extra switches and combos. If a manufacturer took that into consideration like Acer did with my notebook yours might work as well (although you would have to uninstall your current BT or disconnect it to test that)

 

I have separate BT module on my Lenovo, and I hate it. The software to turn in on or off is excessive and unreliable; if I turn it off in OS, the light is still lit and I assume the Bluetooth is still powered, affecting battery life. Hope I will be able to use 7260AC - after somebody confirms modded BIOS without beeps works.

 

I might as well try it, I have no clue how it will behave, but I guess its worth a shot. My separate Bluetooth card is powered via a switched 5v bus on the EC controller, which is a hardware toggle. It drops the 5v line on disable, and detaches the device from the OS. I'll grab a 7260 asap and see what it does. Thanks for the input! If it does toggle, clearly it has better antennas than the smaller BT cards so I'll just disconnect it and use the epic Intel one(I think mines not even a V 4.0 but I'd have to check)

 

I remember there being specific pins on the card that you can tape off to disable bluetooth on a 7260AC, might be worthwhile to do some digging there.

 

That is a very good point, I'm sure a pinout would help