From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Dec 19 0:23:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.46.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A43DC37B405 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:23:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.11.1/8.9.3) id fBJ8Nbc56507; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:23:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kuku) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 09:23:37 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies To: ben Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: internal antenna? (was Re: usb 802.11b working?) Message-ID: <20011219092337.A56473@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <20011219000454.I43320-100000@www> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20011219000454.I43320-100000@www>; from ben@stonehenge-net.com on Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 12:12:55AM -0800 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 While being at it: When I bought my Dell Inspiron 8000 the sales person said something like the antenna for wireless operation was already built in or provided. But when I see the pccards these days they all have this 1" antenna block coming out of the slot (which doesn't look very elegant and is a possible risk of damaging something). Is there something like 'internal antennas' in notebook computers? On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 12:12:55AM -0800, ben wrote: > just ordered a lucent usb 'gold' 802.11b so i can free my wife from her 25 > foot cat 5 tether for christmas (along with an airport card for her > tibook)... ofc, i should have checked the compatability list first it > seems :) > > after ordering the thing, i sat down to recompile my kernel with support > for it... but i can't find any devices that list compatibility for this. > have checked the web site, etc, and am worried now... am i stuck with one > of the pci/pccard bridges? (and reordering/returning) ? if there's nothing > official, does anyone have anything experimental i can help field test? > > thanks, > > ben > -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message