[ale] 802.11b Adapters

[Hogg, Russell E]

As a matter of I guess federal law all wireless card manufacturers use different types of antenna jacks.  So to use them you end up getting on ebay and getting a pigtail that will go to whatever your antenna is (probably N)

Russ




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-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: cfowler [mailto:cfowler at outpostsentinel.com]
-> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 1:10 PM
-> To: ale at ale.org
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-> So the Orinoco Gold cards have this jack?
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-> On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 13:04, Fletch wrote:
-> > >>>>> "cfowler" == cfowler  <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> writes:
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-> >     cfowler> I have a Linksys WPC11 PCMCIA Adapter.  I would like to
-> >     cfowler> attach an external antannea to it.  Does anoyone know
-> >     cfowler> how?  If not, IS there a brand I can pick up at CompUSA
-> >Â Â Â Â  cfowler> or Micro Center, that will work with Linux and allow
-> >Â Â Â Â  cfowler> attaching of an external ant. ?
-> >
-> > Don't know about pick-up-ability, but the Prism based cards have a
-> > jack for an external adaptor (we've got some Orinoco and Enterasys
-> > OEM'd cards which do at least).
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