Recommendation on PCMCIA Wireless cards with external atenna

David Mandala plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
23 Oct 2002 16:35:49 -0700


Orinocco cards are good BUT they are fairly low power < 70mW. I think
IBM makes a 200 mW card that is short (just fits into a standard PCMCIA
slot does not stick out at all) and requires the use of an external
antenna.

Cheers,

Davidm

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 15:41, Liberty Young wrote:
> 
> 
> I work for a small company that is selling single board computers, one
> of which has a PCMCIA slot. the PCMCIA slot will be primarily used for
> 802.11b cards. We'd like to offer to our customers an off the shelf card
> that is readily available. 
> 
> Does anybody have any recommendations for a good, off the shelf 802.11b
> wireless card with an external antenna, or better yet, with a slot for
> plugging in your own external antenna? Besides being readily available,
> the card would have to be supported by linux. I'm currently looking at
> orinocco cards. Does anybody have any other suggestions? 
> 
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