Thank you Loc! The WiFi relocation has been very finicky for me, nice to hear I may not be just horrible at soldering.Looking promising guys! I noticed when I rewired the wifi module I needed to keep the wires around the same length. Also the voltage lines needed to be thicker and I needed multiple ground lines wired to the original locations on the wifi board.
Interesting. Is it because they are some form of high speed traces sensitive to impedance matching? Could the ground lines be attached to the ground shielding instead of the tiny pads? I don't see why you wouldn't be able to.Looking promising guys! I noticed when I rewired the wifi module I needed to keep the wires around the same length. Also the voltage lines needed to be thicker and I needed multiple ground lines wired to the original locations on the wifi board.
For some reason when I used different wire lengths it didn't always get recognized. I haven't tested it enough though to say for certain. Just like the n64 cartridge relocation is finicky with not enough ground wires so is the wifi on the wii. All I know is that it works the way I have it wired. Maybe a good idea to dissect the wifi chip and find out what signals need to be replicated to fake a connection. Even if you fry the wifi pins if the wii thinks something is connected and continues to load the homebrew loader it will be a success.Interesting. Is it because they are some form of high speed traces sensitive to impedance matching? Could the ground lines be attached to the ground shielding instead of the tiny pads? I don't see why you wouldn't be able to.
Also, you owe me some pictures
I took a look at cIOS for the same reason, but there are no public informations about the low level wifi module interface so it might be quite hard to disable the wifi in this way. I will also look at my NAND dump and see if I can find anything in there. Also, even if it was possible to disable the wifi just through a cIOS, it would be dangerous since it would have to replace a system IOS and not one in an unused slot.I know that it won't be easy to fake the wifi data to/from the console, there's quite a bit of data sent back/forth between the console and the wifi chip to initialize the different parts of the board. It would be much better if there was a cIOS. Also, you can just connect a thick ground wire to the shielding of the wifi board, there is continuity between all the ground pins and the shielding. I will also test star fox with no MX chip (it's this one, right?), however, WiiFlow and Nintendont have been kinda finicky without it. I am looking through the code of both to see if they rely on any of the MX chip's functions, and if I can potentially trick the console into thinking it's connected.
More work to come...
watI've also looked at the disc drive and it is most likely easy to completely disable.
Sorry, I was still half asleep when I wrote that post
Whoops, my badI was saying "wat" to the fact that it seems to be easy.
Sounds awesome, keep us updated!
If you did that you would be amazing.Anyway I took a look at current cIOSs and they make different calls to the disc drive. I will try to remove those and I'll see whether or not the disc drive interface is used in some other ways.