Ok. If not the DLink, what about the older 3Com AirConnect cards? As I recall the antenna just popped off of them. Would they work? I've seen em on EBay for 15 or so. If not that, what card would be a good card that would support an external antenna?
Garl > -----Original Message----- > From: T. Joseph Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 6:21 PM > To: The Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux User Group's mail list > Subject: Re: [eug-lug]Coffee > > > 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. > > -- > T. Joseph Carter The human > brain does not > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > contain information > > In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know > that's a really > good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change > their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. > They really > do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because > scientists are > human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every > day. I cannot > recall the last time something like that happened in politics > or religion. > -- Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP keynote address > _______________________________________________ > EuG-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
