Re: totally amateur question: How to attach an antenna to my laptop?

pau wrote:

> I have a thinkpad T40 running OpenBSD and live in a small, nice city
> close to Barcelona whose city hall offers free wifi Internet to
> everybody.
>
> Unfortunately they do not have a good coverage and where my building
> is, I don't get any signal. The card is identified by OpenBSD as ath0,
> which means it's Atheros.
>
> Now, I am thinking of building an external wifi antenna but I don't
> have the slightest idea of how to do it.

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> 2) how do I attach the antenna to the thinkpad?

A quick check of the web shows that your laptop has a mini-pci internal
wireless adapter with connections to diversity antennas in the case
(probably the lid). You will need to do some significant modifications
to provide connections to external antennas (possibly two needed
depending on how the diversity system is configured) -- not for
the inexperienced or those lacking time and patience.

A better bet would be to use another WiFi adapter: either USB or PCMCIA
with an external antenna connector already provided.

Regards,

Michael