Change Laptop Wireless Card?

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Published on 2011-06-21T14:50:22Z Indexed on 2011/06/21 16:25 UTC
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I have just bought a new Samsung RV511 Laptop (the i5 Version).

Anyway it comes installed with a Broadcom Wifi Card, I have a Super Atheros Mini Wifi Card that I would like to swap for the Broadcom one. I use Atheros for security auditing purposes in Linux that the Broadcom one is not good for.

Trouble is I have never got to the barebones of a laptop, although I am a Custom PC Builder, laptops i generally have no concern for.

Take a look at this picture, I took one back panel off to reveal some of the components:

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I believe the Wireless Card is where I marked the arrow pointing too. That little white square thing appears to be a sticker of the Wifi card, it says WLAN.

How can I access it to swap it with my Atheros one. Do I need to remove all the outermost screws? There are screws located to the right of where I scribbled in Yellow and next to the HDD, do I just remove those?

I dont want to destroy the machine, only just got it today.

Appreciate some help thanks.

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