From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0eKT-0004Ee-Qx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:56:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j74BsaEO029786; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:54:36 GMT Received: from s2.stud.uni-goettingen.de (s2.stud.uni-goettingen.de [134.76.60.22]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j74Bp4Hb031588 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:51:04 GMT Received: from [134.76.161.221] (helo=sub00421) by s2.stud.uni-goettingen.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.22) id 1E0eGG-00011d-UT for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:51:44 +0200 Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:51:44 +0200 From: Hans-Werner Hilse To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works? Message-Id: <20050804135144.1dfcd616.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: <42F1FA35.10505@cfrscca.net> References: <42F1C205.6010603@internode.on.net> <42F1FA35.10505@cfrscca.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0rc (GTK+ 2.6.8; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fc34598a-372a-427c-97cf-0713881c7171 X-Archives-Hash: e16e708b2148af9ad0d7802be02b3c89 Hi, On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:21:25 -0400 Craig Zeigler wrote: > This is a pretty cool idea, but I wonder what the range on something > like this is. Considering that the transmitting capability of a PCMCIA > card isn't very high. Do you risk burning out the card or the slot by > forcing more power to it? will the PCMCIA bus permit diverting more > power to a card? Huh? "Forcing more power to the card"?!? You mean, increase the current? Or how else do you want to archieve that? Nah, this wouldn't work. You'd have to set up power level by means of the pcmcia card, that is by using "iwconfig ... power ...", in most cases. Well, and I know a few PCMCIA cards that do 100mWatts output. In fact, a whole bunch of APs internally use standard WLAN cards that are just flashed with a different Firmware. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list