[olug] Wireless Card Roll-call

[Sam Tetherow]

PCMCIA  Senao 200mw NL-2511CD+EXT2 takes two MMCX connectors out for ant 
and diversity.

If you are looking for a mini-pci card the Atheros CM9 a/b/g and the 
NL2511NP b/g are both good, I haven't used 802.11g on either of the 
cards and I'm not sure the status of the atheros drivers under vanilla 
linux (use them under MikroTik and StarOS but not vanilla linux).

All of the above cards can be purchased from www.wisp-router.com for 
reasonable prices as well as quality pigtails for each card.  If you are 
going with the CM9 and plan on using 802.11a make sure you get a quality 
hirose pigtail (rated to over 5Ghz otherwise your loss will be horrible).

Charles Bird wrote:

>on a similar note, my roomate and I have been runing wireless, mostly on winders, but we live in a new apt, and I looked at the punchdown block and discovered that its all cat5e for telco svc, we dont have a phone here, just cell and vonage so we put a router near the punchdown location, put ends on that side and installed rj-45 plates in place of the rj11 plates, man I like hard wired much better than wirless. U should check to see what u have running behind those walls.
>As far as your question, dunno, but I do have some sma, smb, and I belive smc cables around here, the only thing with those is that they are all 90 degree connectors, which from my experience is a instant 6db loss, but I havnt tested these for loss. If you want one or two let me know
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Adam Lassek" <adam.lassek at gmail.com>
>To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
>Subject: Re: [olug] Wireless Card Roll-call
>Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:22:10 -0600
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>>I would also like to know if there are some good 802.11g PCI cards
>>that work well with Linux, since we're going to be setting up our new
>>apartment with wireless and I'd rather not run cable to the mythtv
>>box.
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>>On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:01:48 -0600 (CST), Jon H. Larsen
>><relayer at levania.org> wrote:
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>>>Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>>Let's say I'm in the market for a good 802.11 wireless card, that meets a
>>>few stringent requirements:
>>>
>>>A) Driver included with Kernel 2.6.8 or higher (no wrappers, or downloads)
>>>B) PC Card should run at 3.3 volts (low power)
>>>
>>>While not a requirement, if it can be modified for an external antenna,
>>>that's fine too.
>>>
>>>So, I'm asking for a roll-call of cards that you are currently using with
>>>Linux that work well and don't need tweaking (without all the hassles of
>>>wrappers, wlan-ng or firmware downloads, etc).
>>>
>>>Please state if it's a PC Card (PCMCIA) or PCI card.
>>>
>>>Jon L.
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