[PLUG] Re: WiFi Card
Zot O'Connor
zot at whiteknighthackers.com
Sun Dec 14 21:33:01 UTC 2003
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 15:29, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Regards wireless cards for Linux, look at
>
> http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/Client_5fAdapters_5f802_5f11b
>
> For some information on wireless cards. I run a rebranded Senao
> 200MW PCMCIA card on my laptop. In general, Prism chipsets are
> well supported, and more power is better.
>
> If you blew up a PCI card in your desktop, you will probably find
> that it contains a little metal box.
I have and addtron PCI card what is a PCI->PCIMCIA bridge....... No
metal box on that one.
I took apart the AP. Same metal card with a piece of crap connector to
the external antenna, and a few chips (ethernet, pcimcia, and web
browser).
I have been told, the USB devices are the same.
>
> I've already ranted about why an external AP is better, but if you
> weren't convinced then, you won't be convinced now, so we will leave
> that aside. Blowing up a PCI card in a desktop does add yet another
> interesting argument against PCI cards, though!
I have been wondering if USB wireless devices get better reception since
they have an external antenna (while cheap) and reside outside of the
box, and can be positioned better.
>
> Keith
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