I am trying an increase my wireless range on my laptop. Right now I have a HP Pavilion dv1000 that has a PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network card that is built into the computer.
I have the capability to design, build and tune my own antennas and I wanted to play around with different Yagi, Dipole, Monopole and antenna arrays to see how far away I could get a network connection.
I purchased a Hawking Technology Hi-Gain Wireless- 150N USB adapter (HWUN2) because it has removable antennas and SMA connections. Of course they provided drivers for Windows and Mac but there are no drivers for Linux. Granted I did not do my research before buying this device, but it is not a loss since I have a Mac and a Windows machine. Can anyone help me get the Hawking Adapter to work?
oakie194 wrote:
> I am trying an increase my wireless range on my laptop. Right now I have
> a HP Pavilion dv1000 that has a PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network card that
> is built into the computer.
> I have the capability to design, build and tune my own antennas and I
> wanted to play around with different Yagi, Dipole, Monopole and antenna
> arrays to see how far away I could get a network connection.
> I purchased a Hawking Technology Hi-Gain Wireless- 150N USB adapter
> (HWUN2) because it has removable antennas and SMA connections. Of course
> they provided drivers for Windows and Mac but there are no drivers for
> Linux. Granted I did not do my research before buying this device, but
> it is not a loss since I have a Mac and a Windows machine. Can anyone
> help me get the Hawking Adapter to work?
Use ndiswrapper.
Okay I installed the ndiswrapper and I was able to find the .inf file to try and install the driver but it keeps coming back with “invaid driver”
oakie194 wrote:
> Okay I installed the ndiswrapper and I was able to find the .inf file to
> try and install the driver but it keeps coming back with “invaid driver”
The .inf file is only a control file. You will also need the corresponding .sys
file, which is the actual driver. The driver needs to be 32- or 64-bit depending
on your Linux system.
Thanks, I was able to figure it out. I also had to download a new driver from their website to make it work.