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>> I'm talking about the USB wireless adapter (I don't think I can |
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>> connect the antenna to my laptop directly), |
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>> not the passphrase key... |
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> Ah. I've got a Hawking HWUG1 USB WiFi adapter that works fine |
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> with Gentoo (I had to download driver source from somewhere). |
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> It's got an R-SMA connector for use with external antennas. |
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I've had good luck using these together: |
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164015 |
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 |
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Use the rt2x00 driver included in 2.6.24 kernels. |
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I should mention though, I attached that antenna to a PCI madwifi card |
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and it works much better. Obviously that won't work for a laptop or |
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if you want to move the antenna a distance from the computer via USB |
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cable as opposed to antenna extension cable. |
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- Grant |
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