Upgrading a Acer Aspire 1353 XC with Bluetooth and/or WLAN

Hi,

i have bought a Acer Aspire 1353 XC, and it has two Buttons on it for
Activating Bluetooth and WLAN. The Bigger Models in the 1350 Series have
Build in. Do anyone know if i can Buy a Mini PCI Card for WLAN and
Install it into the Aspire ? If there are Buttons for these Functions,
and (i think) it is the same Mainboard all the 1350 Series, it has
eventually a Mini PCI Slot or something similar for udgrading it in a
Simple Way.

Has Anyone the Service Manaual for it and can look if there are Slots
for this on the Mainboard ?

THX

Gerhard

Hi,

I have a similar PC (Aspire 1355).

There is a modem card placed beside the RAM's (accessible from the
underside of the PC). This modem card comes in two different flavours,
one with BlueTooth combined and one without. I assume that it is
possible to replace this card to get the BlueTooth function but I
don't know if that's enough and the possible price of that card.

The WLAN card is placed underneath the top cover of the PC near the
place the power button is (above the keyboard). I don't know if that's
a standard card but I don't think it is enough just to stick a card in
there since you will not have an antenna. There are two different
versions of the screen lid, one with a built in WLAN antenna and one
without. To access the place where this card is you have to remove a
screw placed on the back of the PC (above the parallell port) that
secures a small part of the cover that hides the place where the
cables goes up to the screen. Then it is 'just' to pop up the cover
where the buttons are located.

This is also the way to remove the keyboard which someone else asked
about somewhere. It is easy available when the top cover is removed.

Regards.