Re: Which card...CHOSEN

David Gibbons <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.pdxlug
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tobias Rice wrote:

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> Russell Senior wrote:
> |>>>>>"John" == John Hampton <[email protected]> writes:
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> | John> I'm not using the Senao, but I've got a prism2 chipset card in
> | John> my home-made linux firewall/wireless AP.  So if you wan't the
> | John> little extra power, don't be afraid of linux compatability.
> |
> | Regarding the high-power cards, bear in mind that they have transmit
> | power but they don't have extra reception sensitivity, so unless the
> | radio you are talking to has high power (or antenna-enhanced power
> | through a narrowed beam), it doesn't actually give you any additional
> | range.
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> |
> Thanks to everybody for their suggestions. I wound up getting the Senao
> because the drivers are in the 2.6 kernel, most of the tools I'll be
> using have support for the Prism2.5 chipset, and this card has the best
> sensitivity of the all the fore mentioned cards.




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