Re: [iPAQ] Wireless-Lan-Card

I've found a Orinoco gold on www.insight.com for $80us.

- Jayson Garrell

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 09:02, Goetz Bock wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 05 '02 at 16:52, jonathan chetwynd wrote:
> > orinoco is well supported,
> but expensive
>
> cisco aironets are more expensive, not as good supported (e.g. smaler
> user base) but have the better driver (better under heavy treffic and
> the stock driver is able to do sniffing)
>
> prism2 based cards are signivicantely cheeper, but the quality varies
> widely. The current driver supports sniffing and Host AP (emulated base
> station) mode, but you should either be willing to do some experiments
> or be able to return your card, as it might not work out of the box)
>
> If you want to do sniffing:
> - orinoco has the most wide spread connector (you get antennas
> everywhere) and there appears to be a patch to allow sniffing with
> linux. (they have a very good software for Windows i386)
> - the aironet cards have the best driver for wirless sniffing, the old
> (pre cisco) models come with removeable antenna, or you can get
> special models with out antenna. But the connector is not very popular
> - the prism2 host AP driver appears to be quite useable for sniffing (if
> it works with your card, I've a D-Link DLW-650 (IIRC, it's at home)
> and it works) and some cards (e.g. the DWL-650 or some SMC) have
> soldering points for antenna cables
>
> If you want long distance:
> - the regular orinocos have 60mW transimssion power, there are so called
> "red cap" cards with only 20mW (IIRC) for FCC approved usage with high
> gain antennas (e.g. yagies)
> - the aironets are available with 60mW (called 340) or 100mW (called
> 350) and you can use the driver to change the transmission power. The
> 350 have better rx antennas too.
> - the transimssion power of prism2 cards varies widely but tops as 60mW
> as the transmission unit is only capable of this. Most will have
> less, but I was not able to find as much documentation as I wanted to.
> the rx antennas are mostly cheep copper lines on the PCB board.
>
> Any questions? :-)
> Goetz.
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Received on Fri Jun 07 15:42:51 2002