December 02, 2015

3 Steps to Add WIFI for BMW ICOM A1 Clone

Here is the easy instruction to help you add wifi for your cloneICOM A1, only 3 steps is needed to makeICOM A1 becomewifi BMW ICOM A2:

Step 1 -Add Mini PCI Type III 124 pins Socket:
Step 2 - Add wifi card
Step 3 - Test: work fine

start with this




And this, Wieson 6156 Series Mini-PCI TypeIII Socket 124Pin 6156E024-004

You can buy 5 sockets

First placement

Let's go to serious things

Looks good

Card on

You will need last3.10.44 Icom's Firmwareto have Wifi on any router.

You can download it here: http://uptobox.com/l60dmxgc47bq

Upgrade the firmware then go to
http://ip.of.your.icom:58000/?CodeCountry=DE

Step 2 - Add wifi card:
It is not necessary to get expensive but very rare Sparklan WMIA-199N Wifi card. "cheap" wifi card based on Atheros 9160 chipset is okay with those antennas.


Step 3 - Test: work fine
As you can see on the screenshots below. It works fine.

Priority is set to LAN if you want to use WIFI connect yourICOMto your car without LAN cable connected.


Now, youricom a1will be like BMWICOM A2+B+Cscanners, which can be used with WIFI.

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