So, I am salvaging what I can from a dead laptop. There is honestly not a whole lot of easily useable stuff (it's all smd, basically) and I was just browsing Google and came across a picture of the WiFi Shield for Arduino. So I wondered... Can I use the laptops old wifi module to build my own wifi …

Atheros WiFi Module + Arduino = ??

Osgeld September 1, 2012, 4:19am 2

short answer ... no

its at least pci or usb, the arduino supports neither