[Novalug] Fwd: Speaking of wireless NICs

jerry w jerrywone@gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 07:21:56 EST 2011


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From: jerry w <jerrywone@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Novalug] Speaking of wireless NICs
To: RogerB@bronord.com


Why do the "surgery"?
they make the neat little things
and put usb controllers on them,
and they move from machine to machine
like USB sticks...

8-/

And you can move them around on extension cords
for better signal without moving the whole
mobo....

Some it's a daughterboard, and form factor
specific, which would be expensive, IMO,
but I'm not an ebay/ online shopping fan...

White Sands, is it warm there?
Not South America Warm, but warm?

I've been to White Sulphur Springs,
but that was COLD, I got a cough
at a "hospital" and still have it
going on 2 months later.
Hopefully not MIRSA (sp?)



On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Roger W. Broseus <rogerb@bronord.com> wrote:
> Hi, Jon.
>
> I never realized that one could swap out a network card in a laptop: I thought
> the wifi is on the motherboard.
>
>  From the RV park at White Sands Missile Range, tethered to the Net via my
> Droid, happy holidays.
>
> --
> Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
>     Email: RogerB@bronord.com
>     Web Site: www.bronord.com
>
>
> On 12/18/2011 10:00 AM, novalug-request@calypso.tux.org wrote:
>>     1. Speaking of wireless NICs (Jon LaBadie)
>>
>>
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:11:46 -0500
>> From: Jon LaBadie<novalugml@jgcomp.com>
>> Subject: [Novalug] Speaking of wireless NICs
>> To: novalug@calypso.tux.org
>> Message-ID:<20111217181146.GA6680@butch.jgcomp.com>
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>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:48:44PM -0500, The Doctor wrote:
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>>> On 12/16/2011 10:43 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
>>>> You may want to look into cheap (ebay is a great place to find
>>>> these) mini-PCI wireless cards that are well compatible with Linux
>>>> as a last resort.
>> ...
>>>> One that I can recommend if your current card doesn't work out is
>>>> an Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG.
>>> I'll second that.  I've also had a lot of success with the Intel 3945
>>> chipset.
>>>
>> In my Dell Vostro 1500 I replaced my Intel 3945 with an Intel 5300
>> in order to add the N wifi protocol.  The Intel 4965 was an option
>> (with N) when I purchased the laptop, even had the necessary 3rd
>> antenna lead installed, but I didn't have any other N-capable devices
>> at the time.
>>
>> The 5300 is working fine using N in the 2.4GHz band.  But both my
>> router and this card are capable of working in the 5GHz band, the
>> router can do both simultaneously.  I'd like to force the use of
>> the 5GHz band as another laptop in the house, running Windows, is
>> also capable of working either band and gets a stronger signal and
>> higher speed using 5GHz.
>>
>> I've found a few "iw..." commands and some seem like they should
>> be able to force the used channel or frequency.  When I try them
>> I get a "success" exit status, but nothing seems to happen.
>>
>> How does one specify the frequency/channel/band to use?
>>
>> Jon
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