On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 08:08:56PM -0400, Grigsby, Garl wrote:
> I've been itching to try this for some time, but I haven't got any hardware
> yet, other than my laptop. In fact I spent a couple of hours about a week ago
> bouncing around Ebay looking at wireless cards and GPS antennas. I've been thinking
> that I would prefer a USB GPS antenna, but I haven't looked at what is supported on
> Linux.
I don't know about USB GPS support..
> So what GPS unit are you using? What wireless card? Are there any wireless
> PCMCIA cards that will support an external antenna? I've been looking at probably
> getting a DLink DWL-650 because a) they are cheap, and b) they seem to have pretty
> good Linux support (prism2).
I do know most of the serial ones work, but I wasn't willing to pay $2-300
for a GPS so I don't have one.
I'd say avoid DLink on principle because of the games they've played with
Linux support for the DWL-650+ which they provided a binary driver based
on GPL code, refused to release source, and yanked the binary driver.
Linux is officially unsupported as far as DLink is concerned.
Netgear supports Linux actively.
> So does anybody have a WiFi card they are looking to get rid of? I have some
> cash and lots of stuff I can trade. Just let me know.
Unfortunately the current 802.11b card made by Netgear does not have the
ability to add the SNA connector as originally done to many Prism2's.
I've popped mine open to to discover and verify this. It has the ability
to take a card-edge-mount connector, MMCX probably, and requires a minute
capacitor soldered into place just as the Prism2 boards do.
I broke one of the two clips designed to prevent you from being able to
get the thing open to make this kind of modification. It holds itself
together, but I resigned myself to, once the antenna mod was finished,
shape some epoxy to fill in the small gap left by the clip.
Of course, I no longer have a notebook with an external PCMCIA slot, and
the one I do have came with 802.11g when I bought it.
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