Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:16:34 -0800 (PST) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@covalent.net> To: Bob Vaughan <techie@tantivy.stanford.edu> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, grisha@ispol.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: airport firmware - help! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012111514270.1616-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200012091742.JAA64904@tantivy.stanford.edu>
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On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Bob Vaughan wrote: > FYI: the Airport card for the mac is a OEM card, that supposedly does not > work with other machines.. It also does not have a built-in antenna. It is normal PCMCIA with a funny power reconfig. You can get it to work using a bit of soldering and diode in, say, an isa 2 pcmcia card. You propably do not want to do this to your laptop :-) assuming you can get there on a multi layer circuit board. The white lucent passive antenna's seem to work fine with it. I get a decent range and thing gets hot; i.e. no clear signs of impedance mismatch issues. DW. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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