AmbiCom WL1100C-CF Mod Help, I want to add an exteral antenna Options

[darkpadden]

Hi
i opened my Wl1100c-cf wifi card and trying to find where i can soder to add an external antenna i'll post pics soon of the cards guts but i need to bum a better cam than the zaurus cam to take a better pic. has anyone done this yet? i read in a fue spots people talking about doing it but haven't found any info on howto yet. I have an attenna and cable that iam gonna use (its gonna mount in the stylus hole on a steel rod with the cable perma attached to this card (i'll buy another to use in gen pub ) any suggestions? warrnings? there all welcomed.

thanks

[darkpadden]

you wanted pics well here thay are, i would attach them here but i get probs trying to upload but thats ok

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i think the suspect is that long white thing on the top of the card heres a good pic of that of what iam talking about its that thing on the right of the card
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dose anyone know if this is it or think i its not? it would be wounderfull to gain some extra range with this guy (would even be nicer to get kismet working but thats a project i can deal with later.)

by the way the antenna that iam useing is a ducky from a Linksys wap11 AP that died

This post has been edited by darkpadden: Nov 2 2004, 03:29 AM

[dz]

Heh, damn man. You should delete the blurry ones.

[darkpadden]

aye man iam about too have it finished (in progress)

...Done

This post has been edited by darkpadden: Jul 26 2004, 11:19 PM

[darkpadden]

That White thing on top of the Ambicom card must be the internal antenna i touch one end of the ducky wire and boom i jump from floating around 16 to 132 (wireless moniter thats seems a little off ) and noise drops from 8 to 0 and the quality jumps up too that white thing has a patten on the inside that looks kida like this [] -\/\/\/\/\/\/\ [] ( "[]" soderpoints ) but i can only see where its connected at one end (the side with the "-" looking at it right side up)

[dz]

Wow.. I want to see finished pictures of this. I have two of those cards, and I'd like to try out the antennae thing with it. Let me know how it goes.

[darkpadden]

i have read where people talked about doing something like this to this card but did not have enouth guts to open the card, i iam feeling in that part by opening the card and taking some desent picture. i'll do this and figure it out myself but i would like a fue more comments to know if iam on the right path before i fry this thing or it bakes it's self.

dose anyone else nottice that this card get very warm over long use?

[Laze]

Im very interested in this project so lets us all know how it goes.

[darkpadden]

don't worry i'll keep yall posted i know there are alot of people that would like to see this done ( i been one for over a year ) and now that i got (#%#^%^%) kismet running i really want to do this now but i need to wait intill i get a little more feedback about what iam doing before i contenue this little project

[darkpadden]

arggg this project may have to wait a little longer it looks like my Card is starting to die. i get major system lag trying get it start.it and stop (takes about 40 secs to get going ) but it still works just anoying the hell out of me ( it lockes up the zaurus 5600 eveytime and is getting worse_

[dz]

Actually, that's not your card. I had a 5600, and mine used to do the very same thing. After many days and days of trying to fix it, I finally found a solution:

Buy a c860.

I've been trouble-free since

[darkpadden]

yeah would love to have a c860 but i do not have that kind of money atm (man i would love one of them) iam woundering if this is software issue i was doing fine intill i installed intercepter then uninstalled it. it just started takeing forever to connect (now @ 80 secs to connnect and the same to disconnect )

if it not rain is its fire ya know

[dz]

Make any new progress?

[omin0us]

yeah, i have this same card and would like to know how this turns out. keep us updated

[darkpadden]

Make any new progress?

yeah i made my Z even worse atm and i have no way to test the card if i where to do that mod to it just yet .

i tryed to flash my zaurus with another OS and it looks like its trying to flash to a readonly file system and the Z is just not taking it. i now get the 1st "sharp please wait 2 min" boot up screen and stays there for about 8 mins and then the screen dies and the green mail light flashes.

when i get this figured out i will contenue with my mod