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On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:20:04PM -0700, Kevin Lahey wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:38:20 +0200
> Siegmund Fuhringer <sifu@0xx0.net> wrote:
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> > 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 ca=
rd
> > > rather than a $25 PCMCIA-to-PCI adaptor, only to find out that the DW=
L-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.
> >=20
> > one reason i want to use the dwl660 is, that i am able to connect outdo=
or
> > antennas.
> > and it seems to me as if most cheap pci cards don't have connector for
> > external antennas.
>=20
> Oh, yeah, the Linksys and DLink 802.11b cards I've played with have=20
> both got detachable antennas.  It is an SMA connector, I believe:

hmm... good to know :)


>=20
> 	http://www.hdcom.com/bundles.html#HD19654
>=20
> (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).
>=20
> This is just a suggestion;  I think that getting a PCMCIA adaptor
> is fine way to do it, too.

i've found a pcmcia adaptor which i want to try :) (EPoX EWL-PCA)

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> Have fun!

thank you - sifu

> Kevin
> kml@selresearch.net

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