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 1E0jt4-0001Mw-1l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:52:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j74HoaX9002149; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:50:36 GMT Received: from charlotte.ctrust.com (gatorvet.com [207.59.126.37]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j74Hl2ju003681 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:47:03 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.92] (unknown [192.168.100.92]) by charlotte.ctrust.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8AF375CE2A for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:50:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42F254D1.5000701@cfrscca.net> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:48:01 -0400 From: Craig Zeigler User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works? References: <42F1C205.6010603@internode.on.net> <42F1FA35.10505@cfrscca.net> <20050804135144.1dfcd616.hilse@web.de> <42F20F85.2070404@cfrscca.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 591e6e76-71b9-4bd0-a3ef-161ee320cb93 X-Archives-Hash: c86c094c79df0bd269e141a97c303494 Fernando Meira wrote: >Does that mean that it is unadvised to use a PCMCIA card for AP functions? >I won't need a good range... something that works fine up to 8 meters >(between 2 rooms) is enough. >I have to check if the driver I use allows Master mode. > ># ndiswrapper -l >Installed ndis drivers: >lsbcmnds driver present, hardware present > >Any idea? > >Fernando. > >On 8/4/05, Craig Zeigler wrote: > > >>Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: >> >> >> >>>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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>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. >>-- >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> >> >> > > > I can't advise you on that at all, but when i read the original post, I was left with those questions. My inquiry was more out of curiosity. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list