[WIRELESS] RE: Driver for USB Wireless client?

[Mike Kershaw]

Of all things, the Microsoft USB adapters use the prism chipset and work
well in linux with the wlan-ng drivers.

I've pulled one apart, and if you're handy with a soldering iron it would
be very easy to remove their builtin antenna and solder a bit of LMR with
a SMA jack onto the board - the builtin whip just uses a strand of LMR
itself.

-m

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:28:20PM +1100, Darryl Smith wrote:
> Personally what I do is put the USB device at the focus of a dish. That
> way you don't need an external antenna - and I can use a PrismII card.
> 
> Darryl
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireless-admin at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:wireless-admin at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings
> Sent: Monday, 25 November 2002 11:37 AM
> To: wireless at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Driver for USB Wireless client?
> 
> 
> Can anyone recommend a USB wireless client with an external antenna with
> a 
> Linux driver available?
> 
> USB support of PrismII cards in Linux seems Ok, but none of them seem to
> have 
> external antennas.
> 
> The orinoco usb adapter looks perfect, but is there a driver to work
> with it?
> 
> TIA
> derek
> 
> 

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