>> I'm talking about the USB wireless adapter (I don't think I can >> connect the antenna to my laptop directly), >> not the passphrase key... > > Ah. I've got a Hawking HWUG1 USB WiFi adapter that works fine > with Gentoo (I had to download driver source from somewhere). > It's got an R-SMA connector for use with external antennas.
I've had good luck using these together: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164015 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 Use the rt2x00 driver included in 2.6.24 kernels. I should mention though, I attached that antenna to a PCI madwifi card and it works much better. Obviously that won't work for a laptop or if you want to move the antenna a distance from the computer via USB cable as opposed to antenna extension cable. - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
