Or so I thought; I should have known that the gods of Lilliput who rule over the tiniest of things would have other ideas. The board containing the complete Wi-Fi module is just 30 mm long and plugs into the M.2 PCIE slot in the laptop which is 22 mm wide. Even the RF connectors used to attach the antennae coaxial cables are absolutely minute. I slipped the blade of a tiny screwdriver under the two RF plugs in turn to gently lever them out of their PCB-mounted sockets. The original Wi-Fi module could now be withdrawn from its slot and the new module slid in. Plugging in the antenna cables was not quite so straightforward... The first connector plugged in fine but the second would not.
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