From: "madodel" Received: from mxout3.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.167] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTP id 953339 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:07:02 -0500 Received: from mxin2.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.176]) by mxout3.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HOHZS-0003VW-LR for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:06:45 -0500 Received: from pm16.mailnet.ptd.net ([204.186.29.235]) by mxin2.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HOHZN-000KsH-Hx for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:05:57 -0500 Received: (qmail 19870 invoked by uid 50005); 5 Mar 2007 18:05:46 -0000 Received: from 70.44.175.116 by pm16.mailnet.ptd.net (envelope-from , uid 50002) with qmail-scanner-2.01 (clamdscan: 0.88.6/2732. Clear:RC:0(70.44.175.116):. Processed in 0.032436 secs); 05 Mar 2007 18:05:46 -0000 Received: from 70.44.175.116.res-cmts.sth.ptd.net (HELO [192.168.1.201]) (authenticated:madodel@[70.44.175.116]) (envelope-sender ) by pm16.mailnet.ptd.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 5 Mar 2007 18:05:45 -0000 Message-ID: <45EC5BE2.8020509@ptdprolog.net> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:05:22 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (OS/2/20070123) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Cardbus 802.11g card with WPA for eCS or Linux? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 204.186.29.235 X-Spam-Score: -0.9 (/) Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > On 03/05/07 12:37 pm, Stanley Sidlov thus wrote : >> On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:27:43 -0500, madodel wrote: >> >> >>> Anyone know of a good Cardbus wireless 802.11g card that will work >>> with either eCS or Linux? My wife wants to use my old P4 laptop in >>> her office and I want it reasonably secure so I need to use WPA and I >>> don't want no stinking windoze. Does this exist for eCS? >>> >> >> Mark, >> >> It's a Thinkpad right? You could open it up and put in a mPCI card >> that has drivers, with antennae wires, opening the TP is not a big >> deal, only putting one wire under the LCD is an issue. You won't get >> the diversity, but you could lay out wires in opposite directions >> under the keyboard....the wires are only about $15 or less on ebay.... >> >> > Good point, Stan. I had forgotten about those aftermarket antennae we > discussed here, previously. However, if the notebook already has an mPCI > wied NIC in it, it is doubtful that there's a free slot... > Does this only work with TP's? I'm not sure if the Mini-PCI card is also the Nic as well as the modem. I believe it may be a combined Realtek unit. any link to where these antennas may be found? Mark -- From the eComStation Desktop of: Mark Dodel Warpstock 2007 - Where?, http://www.warpstock.org Warpstock Europe - http://www.warpstock.net For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice.org "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That in it's essence, is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Message proposing the Monopoly Investigation, 1938