Re: suggested wireless NIC

[squid@sfsu.edu]

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 Yeah, the Orinocco PCI cards are just pci-->pcmcia adapters.  That was
one of the reasons why I happened to like the Orinoccos (other than
Lucent having the lions share of the market) better than the Ciscos.
With Orinoccos you can create your own base station and affix external
antennae--and i dont mean the little ones.  Cisco does offer PCI versions 
of the Aironet 350s, but when I was buying, their website didnt list
vendors and none of their sales staff knew where to purchase them---and
you wonder why their stocks are soooooo low right now compared to last
year (they were used to customers running to them).

  If you want to make your own antenae, you can make powerful ones from
pvc pipe, pringles cans or old Digital Cable Sat dishes.  The
instructions are all over the net for any of those home grown methods.
Try the Bay Area Wireless User groups site, Guerrila Net or one of the
many fabulous do it yourself sites from the "Land Down Under".  If you
are really interested, my other comp should have the links---drop me a
line and I can send em to you.

  Or if you want powerful antennae but dont want to get your hands dirty, 
you can just buy a Yagi.


--stone



On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 19:52:28 -0400 "Generic Player" wrote:

> I dunno about the pcmcia ones, but the PCI ones can have external
> antennae, and they are just a pcmcia card in an adapter.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <squid@sfsu.edu>
> To: <misc@openbsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 11:25 PM
> Subject: Re: suggested wireless NIC
> 
> 
> > [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text]
> > Having both cards (unfortunately neither under OpenBSD yet), i can see
> one
> > major benefit of the Orinocco Gold over the Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA
> cards.
> > The Cisco does not have a place to attach an external antenna.  This
> feature
> > becomes important if you wish to convert an old laptop into a wireless
> base
> > station.  But, if money is not an issue, Cisco is always prepared to
> charge
> > you an arm and a leg for their base station!
> >
> > -jason
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:51:17 -0400 Kurt Miller wrote:
> >
> > > I'll second the Cisco Aironet recommendation. I have three of them
> in my
> > > home network: two 340/PCI and one 350/PCMCIA. I'm using 128bit WEP
> in
> > > adhoc
> > > mode (no base station). Newer firmware caused a problem in 2.8 but
> is easy
> > > enough to fix. 2.9 works like a charm and added support for the 350.
> > >
> > > -Kurt
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mark Grimes
> > > To: snowdog@bigfoot.com
> > > Cc: rpettit@vailsys.com; misc@openbsd.org
> > > Sent: 7/30/01 1:11 PM
> > > Subject: Re: suggested wireless NIC
> > >
> > > You don't want Lucent cards anymore -- unless you don't mind NOT
> > > having promiscuous mode.
> > >
> > > I recommend SMC or Cisco Aironet.
> > >
> > > Mark Grimes <obecian@openbsd.org>