The Mystery Connector

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Those connectors are very similar. The one on the orange cable looks bigger than the one on the card mainly because it's closer to the camera. However, you can clearly see that the dark connector here has a extra bit of unpinned length on the left and right ends, which could very well prove that these two connectors are totally different and that the wiring might not the same. Nevertheless, the similarity of the two is enough to warrant an investigation. If I could verify the location of power and ground on the connector with a multimeter I would but the truth is that the tiny conductors are just too small to touch individually. With the device off I might have better luck figuring that out relative to the CF slot above the connector.

Here you can see the rare cardbus cradle that you probably don't have. You'll need at least this and the cable to perform the install, assuming this one is a match (and I haven't tested it). There is no software configuration required, but you still might want to mount the cradle someplace secure. The panel can go on with the male-to-male connector (not shown) sticking out since its so thin, but that's if you's like to mount it externally. There isn't a lot of room inside though.

In the highly compressed picture above you can see the same 80-conductor female connector of the pcmcia cradle paired with an 80-pin male connector on the motherboard of yet another Japanese computer creation (this time a Sharp Mebius subnotebook). The connector is close, but it is not a match because the outside borders on the dark connector prevent insertion and the center edge on the dark connector is also too narrow. Evil CAD people are up to their tricks again. The connector on this board is also very close to the chipset. Maybe I should call Sharp and ask what they think goes in this port.

Note: this picture is of another computer board and is not a part of a Fujitsu Stylistic LT P-600 or PenNote T1 tablet

WOW, yet another AMP part! You'd think a few of them would match once in a while! This one is a 140-pin mystery-to-minipci adaptor from the same Sharp Mebius notebook. The connector is highly similar to the other dark 80-conductor mystery connector in the last picture but with a widened center block and with well, 140 conductors and nearly twice the length! Obviously there are no real standards for many of these parts.

This is also not a part of a Fujitsu tablet

Notice how the connector on the right looks so much like the opposite of the the one on the Fujitsu Tablet. I cannot test it since that means forcing two motherboards together.