Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

[Fernando Meira]

Does that mean that it is unadvised to use a PCMCIA card for AP functions?
I won't need a good range... something that works fine up to 8 meters 
(between 2 rooms) is enough.
I have to check if the driver I use allows Master mode.

# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
lsbcmnds driver present, hardware present

Any idea?

Fernando.

On 8/4/05, Craig Zeigler <craig@×××××××.net> wrote:
>
> Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:21:25 -0400
> >Craig Zeigler <craig@×××××××.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>This is a pretty cool idea, but I wonder what the range on something
> >>like this is. Considering that the transmitting capability of a PCMCIA
> >>card isn't very high. Do you risk burning out the card or the slot by
> >>forcing more power to it? will the PCMCIA bus permit diverting more
> >>power to a card?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Huh? "Forcing more power to the card"?!? You mean, increase the
> >current? Or how else do you want to archieve that? Nah, this wouldn't
> >work. You'd have to set up power level by means of the pcmcia card,
> >that is by using "iwconfig ... power ...", in most cases.
> >
> >Well, and I know a few PCMCIA cards that do 100mWatts output. In fact,
> >a whole bunch of APs internally use standard WLAN cards that are just
> >flashed with a different Firmware.
> >
> >-hwh
> >
> >
> thats pretty cool to know. When I take a PCMCIA card out of my laptop
> its quite hot. I was just wondering if asking it to draw more power (in
> oncrease transmit power) would pose a cooling problem. The APs have the
> benefit of at least convection cooling. not to mention better antennas.
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