Re: Current PCI wireless cards

[Tim McDonough <tim@mcdonough.net>]

Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:54:36PM -0500, Erich Schroeder wrote:
> 
>>What are some good PCI wireless cards for linux support?
> 
> It's kind of hard to guess.  Read the disclaimer here:
> 
>   http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php
> 
> That said, I know a little Linux-friendly hardware shop who will test
> such things for you...  ;-)
> 
> Steve

Speaking of PCI Wireless cards... I have an older computer in the 
basement that I use to run a few ham radio applications. It has an 
eBay special WiFi card that talks to the wireless router on the 2nd 
floor of our house. The signal strength report isn't great but it's 
okay for most things like web browsing, etc. Occasionally I get signal 
errors if I do a big file transfer or something that really hammers it 
for a few minutes.

Does anyone now of a source for an extension cable that will let me 
take the antenna off the back of the PCI card and raise it up into the 
floor joists of the ceiling above? Ideally about 10 feet or so would 
be nice. The connection problems go away if I temporarily set the 
computer on a step ladder to raise the antenna out of the other pile 
of equipment, etc. that's beneath my bench.

These antennas use what is basically an SMA type connector except the 
chassis connector has a pin instead of a socket in the center and the 
cable plug has a socket instead of a pin.

-- 
Tim


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