From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 30 10:58:23 2004 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 58B8816A4CE for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:58:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.iinet.net.au (mail-11.iinet.net.au [203.59.3.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F48743D5A for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:58:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jne@iinet.net.au) Received: (qmail 30684 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2004 10:58:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.10?) (203.217.50.154) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 30 Aug 2004 10:58:19 -0000 Message-ID: <41330824.5040203@iinet.net.au> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:57:40 +1000 From: Michael McCormack User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Prism based PCMCIA wifi 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: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:58:23 -0000 I currently use a linksys WPC11 v3.0 -- It's a great card, and i love the ability to use dstumbler in passive sniffing mode, (afaik lucent cards can't do this).. but the builtin antenna doesn't seem to be as good as my mate's orinoco silver. I'm not really interested in mods for the WPC since I barely know the right end of a soldering iron, so can anyone recommend a prism-based 802.11b card with either: a) a really powerful builtin antenna, or b) an external antenna jack