From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Aug 20 10: 9:55 2002 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 BCDEF37B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:09:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B417C43E75 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:09:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7KH9kFl017677; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:09:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:49:41 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020820.094941.25097040.imp@bsdimp.com> To: gavin@itworks.com.au Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Latest wi0 crashes with stable From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <025501c24867$67799d90$6401a8c0@bugs> References: <00c001c2476b$052af7d0$6401a8c0@bugs> <20020820.005607.81895842.imp@bsdimp.com> <025501c24867$67799d90$6401a8c0@bugs> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message: <025501c24867$67799d90$6401a8c0@bugs> "Gavin Cameron" writes: : > : > What does dstumbler say? Any APs in the area that might be : : What's dstumbler ? How do I find this value? dstumbler is one of the bsd-airtools. There's a port. : > general direction? : : Coffee cans on poles ;-)... what have polish people got to do with this : apart from being good conductors? Cheap polish and tram conductor humour ;-) Well, a common "hack" here in the US is to get a Yuban Coffee Can, punch a hole in the middle of the B and connect an N connector with a short copper wire (on the order of 3cm iirc). Gives you a decent antenna for not a lot of money, but lacks FCC certification. Good for listening, but less good for xmit. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message