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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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