First the background: I got a laptop from my boss for free. Anything that could be removed easily, was. I have since gotten it up and running (added the hd, memory and miniPCI wireless card). It is still missing the H and " (apostrophe) keys but that is no problem since the rubber nubs still allow me to type and use them.
Not like it matters in this situation since everything works, but for the sake of argument, the hardware specs:
HP Pavilion ze4540us
dual boot: ubuntu 8.04 and XP Home
MSI MS6855B 802.11g Wireless MiniPCI Notebook Card, uses Ralink RT2560F chipset
Everything works fine in both OS's, I got ndiswrapper to see the wireless card in Ubuntu and in both OS I do have a signal from my wireless router (cheap Belkin B/G router).
The problem is the distance. I can sit right next to my router (less than 3 feet) and have 20-35% signal in both XP and Ubuntu. As soon as I move more than 10 feet away I lose the entire signal. Yet my Wii across the house connects to the router just fine, as does a wireless Linksys music streaming box. When I got the laptop and installed the miniPCI card, there are NO wires to connect to the miniPCI wireless card and I partially took apart the laptop and saw no wires to do so. I checked the HP website and their info says it should have it. In my situation since it was partially gutted, I wonder if the wires were cut or pulled out... or from the factory it never had them to begin with.
So my question is this: what is my best bet to get the proper connection from the card (the brass connectors) and wire it up next to/around the LCD and get better signal strength?
just checked back in from my bookmark...
I already have the antenna so looking for an answer to my original question... I did have my laptop partially apart already but found no real way to run any wires in or out of the wireless card bay...
hooking up miniPCI card antenna 
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