[tnkgrl] is back with part three of her Acer Aspire One hacking. this time around she’s adding in 3G. You may look at the photo the above as well as think, “Cake. She just plugged the card in”. No, the Acer doesn’t ship with the mini-PCIe slot or the SIM card holder. very first you have to solder a ideal angle mini-PCIe connector to the board pads as well as bridge two others to supply power. The SIM holder was one more problem. She wasn’t able to discover a pin compatible one. The one she installed is mounted to a riser so she might modification the wiring buy (let her understand if you can discover the right part). This mod absolutely needs some great soldering skills as well as she warns that even she handled to ruin a SIM in the process.

The Dell tiny 9 is one more netbook that doesn’t have the proper connectors soldered on board, however JKK has a work-around. You requirement a 3G modem that has the SIM card on board. You plug it into the WiFi slot after taping over a few pins as well as then utilize a USB WiFi card instead.