Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:21:25 -0400
Craig Zeigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is a pretty cool idea, but I wonder what the range on something
like this is. Considering that the transmitting capability of a PCMCIA
card isn't very high. Do you risk burning out the card or the slot by
forcing more power to it? will the PCMCIA bus permit diverting more
power to a card?
Huh? "Forcing more power to the card"?!? You mean, increase the
current? Or how else do you want to archieve that? Nah, this wouldn't
work. You'd have to set up power level by means of the pcmcia card,
that is by using "iwconfig ... power ...", in most cases.
Well, and I know a few PCMCIA cards that do 100mWatts output. In fact,
a whole bunch of APs internally use standard WLAN cards that are just
flashed with a different Firmware.
-hwh
thats pretty cool to know. When I take a PCMCIA card out of my laptop
its quite hot. I was just wondering if asking it to draw more power (in
oncrease transmit power) would pose a cooling problem. The APs have the
benefit of at least convection cooling. not to mention better antennas.
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