Need a good card for desk stumbling

iphitman · 06-07-2002

Hi, I'm a netstumbler wanna-be. I recently picked up a couple of surplus parabolic antennas at the boeing surplus store that I was planning to convert to operate at 2.4 GHz. Anyways I wanted to use netstumbler to see what I could find in and around my apartment complex. Problem is, I don't have a laptop. Only my old win2K desktop. Are there any PCI or USB adapters that will work with netstumbler?? Any advice would be appreciated,

Thanks

Andy

blackwave · 06-07-2002

Quote:

Originally posted by iphitman
Hi, I'm a netstumbler wanna-be. I recently picked up a couple of surplus parabolic antennas at the boeing surplus store that I was planning to convert to operate at 2.4 GHz. Anyways I wanted to use netstumbler to see what I could find in and around my apartment complex. Problem is, I don't have a laptop. Only my old win2K desktop. Are there any PCI or USB adapters that will work with netstumbler?? Any advice would be appreciated,

Thanks

Andy

You can start here
http://forums.netstumbler.com/search.php?s=

good keywords:
ORiNOCO, USB
PCI

if you search you will find all the answers discovered since the beginning...

TIntruder · 06-07-2002

Any of the Apple, Lucent/Orinoco/Agere units will work.

There are several USB variants.

The PCI cards are basically caddys that a PCMCIA card is inserted into. Same card by the way.

Enterasys and Orinoco/Agere also have (hard to find much info) a unit that is defined as a wireless to ethernet converter/extender. Basically, it allows you to use an ethernet cable plugged into your NIC to extend to a remote Wireless card+converter box. Technically, I guess this is sort of a "bridge".

lullabud · 06-07-2002

rather than getting a PCI card caddy for the PCMCIA card it might be cheaper and more useful to go with a pcmcia card reader that fits in a drive bay. USB's cool too, i have one of those that i carry around with my laptop for network redundancy in poor signal areas, that way i don't have to prop my laptop sideways in the window of a cafe across the street from the AP or something. =)

blackwave · 06-07-2002

Quote:

Originally posted by lullabud
rather than getting a PCI card caddy for the PCMCIA card it might be cheaper and more useful to go with a pcmcia card reader that fits in a drive bay.

I think I would do the same if I used 802.11b for practical purposes, that way I could use the card wherever I needed it, laptop or desktop. I already use a pcmcia reader for other things... and i already have a couple of pcmcia 802.11b cards.

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iphitman Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Seattle, Wa Posts: 1	Need a good card for desk stumbling Hi, I'm a netstumbler wanna-be. I recently picked up a couple of surplus parabolic antennas at the boeing surplus store that I was planning to convert to operate at 2.4 GHz. Anyways I wanted to use netstumbler to see what I could find in and around my apartment complex. Problem is, I don't have a laptop. Only my old win2K desktop. Are there any PCI or USB adapters that will work with netstumbler?? Any advice would be appreciated, Thanks Andy

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06-07-2002	#3 (permalink)
TIntruder Registered Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Oregon Posts: 163	Any of the Apple, Lucent/Orinoco/Agere units will work. There are several USB variants. The PCI cards are basically caddys that a PCMCIA card is inserted into. Same card by the way. Enterasys and Orinoco/Agere also have (hard to find much info) a unit that is defined as a wireless to ethernet converter/extender. Basically, it allows you to use an ethernet cable plugged into your NIC to extend to a remote Wireless card+converter box. Technically, I guess this is sort of a "bridge".

06-07-2002	#4 (permalink)
lullabud Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 261	rather than getting a PCI card caddy for the PCMCIA card it might be cheaper and more useful to go with a pcmcia card reader that fits in a drive bay. USB's cool too, i have one of those that i carry around with my laptop for network redundancy in poor signal areas, that way i don't have to prop my laptop sideways in the window of a cafe across the street from the AP or something. =)