Randy Bush wrote: > For our Tokyo apartment border device, I hacked together a Soekris 5501 > with a large SATA hard drive, a Metrix CM9 802.11abg miniPCI card, and > FreeBSD 8-CURRENT. All worked well except the wireless was significantly > damaged due to very very frequent errors causing TCP back-off. It was > pretty useless. I spent a number of hours chasing it down, some with the > help of the FreeBSD Net mailing list and Sam Leffer in particular. > > I attempted to better shield it. A full description with pretty > pictures is at <http://rip.psg.com/~randy/5501-abg.html>. > > Bottom line so far: hokey household supply shielding has not fixed the > problem. I suspect the hard drive mounting over the miniPCI may be the > problem, but really do not know. > > Help/clue still needed.
I can think of three things to try... The diversity antenna connector may be part of the issue, you could attach a second ufl cable that would probably shield the central pin more effectively Flip the hard-drive upside-down (the holes won't quite line-up height wise and cooling will be an issue) but the heads and the servo will be slightly further away from that side of the mini-pci slot of the card. or one of these... http://www.logicsupply.com/products/pa_mp2 which I used for the second radio in mine. I ended up using 8GB CF even though I have a hdd bracket due to the lack of sata adapter cables at the time... > randy > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
