From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 2 02:01:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE5716A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 02:01:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailgate.uni-paderborn.de (mailgate.uni-paderborn.de [131.234.22.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82B7343D1D for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 02:01:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arne@rfc2549.org) Received: from dsl-213-023-207-232.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.207.232] helo=[192.168.0.23]) by mailgate.uni-paderborn.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1D6JAf-0002Cq-EX; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 03:01:05 +0100 Message-ID: <42251E5F.90707@rfc2549.org> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 03:01:03 +0100 From: Arne Schwabe User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (Windows/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aidan Whyte References: <00e001c51ec2$d6b17550$2201040a@moriarty> In-Reply-To: <00e001c51ec2$d6b17550$2201040a@moriarty> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UNI-PB_FAK-EIM-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://imap.uni-paderborn.de for details X-UNI-PB_FAK-EIM-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UNI-PB_FAK-EIM-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.208, required 4, AUTH_EIM_USER -5.00, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL 1.66, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 0.14) X-MailScanner-From: arne@rfc2549.org cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 802.11a pcmcia cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 02:01:17 -0000 Aidan Whyte wrote: >Anyone know of any 802.11a (/ab/abg/ag/whatever) pcmcia cards that have an external antenna >connector? > >I've read that they're hard to find because most 802.11a cards use a mix of 2 frequency bands to >give more non-overlapping channels, but the FCC doesn't allow one of those bands to be used for >external use so no equipment transmitting over that spectrum can have external antenna connectors. >I'm in Europe where this doesn't apply, but I still can't find any card with an external antenna >connector :o/ If one was found that was known to work under freebsd that would be a big bonus :o) > > > I had no luck either finding one, even the 11a cards for the proxim ap 2000 we have at the university have no antenna connnector even though they have external antenna (Well I am not 100% sure, they may have under the plastic) http://www.proxim.com/products/wifi/ap/ap200011a/index.html If you find one I would be happy if you can tell me too. Arne