Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?

[Craig Zeigler <craig@cfrscca.net>]

Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:21:25 -0400
>Craig Zeigler <craig@cfrscca.net> wrote:
>
>  
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>>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
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>
thats pretty cool to know. When I take a PCMCIA card out of my laptop 
its quite hot. I was just wondering if asking it to draw more power (in 
oncrease transmit power) would pose a cooling problem. The APs have the 
benefit of at least convection cooling. not to mention better antennas.
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