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Fernando Meira wrote: |
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>Does that mean that it is unadvised to use a PCMCIA card for AP functions? |
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>I won't need a good range... something that works fine up to 8 meters |
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>(between 2 rooms) is enough. |
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>I have to check if the driver I use allows Master mode. |
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># ndiswrapper -l |
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>Installed ndis drivers: |
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>lsbcmnds driver present, hardware present |
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>Any idea? |
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>Fernando. |
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>On 8/4/05, Craig Zeigler <craig@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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>>Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: |
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>>>Hi, |
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>>>On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:21:25 -0400 |
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>>>Craig Zeigler <craig@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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>>>>This is a pretty cool idea, but I wonder what the range on something |
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>>>>like this is. Considering that the transmitting capability of a PCMCIA |
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>>>>card isn't very high. Do you risk burning out the card or the slot by |
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>>>>forcing more power to it? will the PCMCIA bus permit diverting more |
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>>>>power to a card? |
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>>>Huh? "Forcing more power to the card"?!? You mean, increase the |
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>>>current? Or how else do you want to archieve that? Nah, this wouldn't |
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>>>work. You'd have to set up power level by means of the pcmcia card, |
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>>>that is by using "iwconfig ... power ...", in most cases. |
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>>>Well, and I know a few PCMCIA cards that do 100mWatts output. In fact, |
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>>>a whole bunch of APs internally use standard WLAN cards that are just |
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>>>flashed with a different Firmware. |
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>>>-hwh |
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>>thats pretty cool to know. When I take a PCMCIA card out of my laptop |
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>>its quite hot. I was just wondering if asking it to draw more power (in |
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>>oncrease transmit power) would pose a cooling problem. The APs have the |
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>>benefit of at least convection cooling. not to mention better antennas. |
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I can't advise you on that at all, but when i read the original post, I |
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was left with those questions. My inquiry was more out of curiosity. |
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