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Old 26th June 2008
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I can't look at the card you posted; site seems down. You first have to verify what type connection your card has: if it's RP-SMA or RP-TNC. The hi-gain antenna you purchase must be able to mate with your card via a correct connector.

In any case, even if they're not compatible, there are lots of adaptors available that will facilitate mating a card with an antenna.

As a sidenote: after you've determined what type chipset your card uses and then checked the BSD HCLs, your next step should be to check the BSD manual for the particular driver to determine it's supported capabilities. For example, after determining that your card uses a ralink chipset and then confirming that this card is supported by the ral(4) driver in FreeBSD, you should have checked the ral manual page. There you'll find that indeed, that card's hostap capabilities work under Free.
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