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[Iain]

As far as i know the orinocco cards can't be put into the WEP sniffing mode. 
The prices i've seen for the cisco cards have been discouraging to say the 
least.

iain.

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:42, Drew wrote:
> if i was buying a card now, i'd get either a cisco lmc352 or a lucent
> orinoco or clone. they have the best receive sensitivity of any cards, and
> imho that's just as important as power output. both work in linux, have
> antenna jacks, pretty sure both can wep sniff, cisco is 100mW/lucent is
> 30mW, don't think either will do ad-hoc though (need prism2 so far), both
> do 11mbps, and the lucent is cheap(er).
>
> d
>
> > What I am after is a card that:
> >
> > - works in linux
> > - has a jack for an external antenna.
> > - is based on a chipset which can do WEP sniffing (PrismII only??)
> > - is high powered enough to get reasonable distances (100mW ?)
> > - works in ad-hoc mode under linux.
> > - 11mbps
> > - cheap ! :)
> >
> > anyone got any suggestions??
> >
> > cheers, Iain.

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