I managed to find a detailed enough picture of the underside of wl700gE mainboard, here in the forum.
82 connected pads out of the 124 on the wl700gE mainboard as opposed to 86 connected pads on the wl120v2, but still it yields a match!
These are indeed pads for a mini-PCI type III connector
Actually, four Reserved pins are left Non Connected at wl700gE as opposed to the WL120V2 wifi card.
Things must be a bit crowded at the PCI bus of wl700gE, between IDE controllers, USB 2.0 Hosts and onboard wifi's. Maybe the IDE controller is on the EBI bus, I will get hold of a wl700gE for a while, that will give me the chance to have a closer look... The wl700gE will be on short loan though, no chances for hardware experimentations...Whether it's possible to connect a mini-PCI connector and a type III card and make it visible for the firmware, i know not. I had a quick read through the firmware's source code of pci.c and such, i can't really say...
I could probably use some help on that one.
Here goes the picture overlayed with pin numbers and signal names.
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