On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:38:20 +0200
Siegmund Fuhringer <sifu@0xx0.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:12:22PM -0700, Kevin Lahey wrote:
> > It might be cheaper to just buy $30 a Linksys WMP11 or similar PCI card
> > rather than a $25 PCMCIA-to-PCI adaptor, only to find out that the DWL-660
> > is too funky to work, or your adaptor is unsupported by NetBSD, etc.
> > I've seen much whining and nashing of teeth amongst folks trying to
> > get good PCMCIA-to-PCI adaptors.
> 
> one reason i want to use the dwl660 is, that i am able to connect outdoor
> antennas.
> and it seems to me as if most cheap pci cards don't have connector for
> external antennas.

Oh, yeah, the Linksys and DLink 802.11b cards I've played with have 
both got detachable antennas.  It is an SMA connector, I believe:

	http://www.hdcom.com/bundles.html#HD19654

(I don't know anything about this vendor, I'm not recommending them,
I'm just pointing out that there are pre-assembled antennas for 'em.)
One cool think about this is that you can use the Host AP driver with
the PRISM2 cards;  it doesn't work for Lucent cards (which the
DWL-660 probably is).

This is just a suggestion;  I think that getting a PCMCIA adaptor
is fine way to do it, too.

Have fun!

Kevin
kml@selresearch.net