Express Card Wifi Card for Wardriving

I want to start war driving and I want to use an external antenna. However my e1705 only has a broadcom wireless card and an express slot. I don't see how to hook up an external antenna. Are there express slot wifi cards?

 

None that I know of yet. This whole express card transition from PC Card really pisses me off. It's like all of the manufacturers decided to flush their collective brains down the toilet. There wasn't even a transitional period where they released all of their current products with both interfaces. It's like they just flipped the switch over night and expected all the peripheral manufacturers to just magically fart express cards out. As you can tell, I'm a bit miffed about this. Many people got screwed as they didn't know this was going to be an issue when they bought their nice shiney new laptop.

I recently had to go hunting for another laptop to find one with a regular old PC Card so I can start up Sprint EVDO service. Sprint doesn't have an express card EVDO NIC yet. Every estimate I've heard for its release has been wrong and now the last I heard it's going to be January.

There's a handful of laptops out there that do have both interfaces but these are rare. Also there are adapters that allow an express card 34 to be used in a PC Card port but not the other way around. You have the people who designed the express card standard to thank for that. In their infinite wisdom they decided to make the express card 54 to be the exact dimensions of a PC Card. So no internal adapter is going to be physically possible. Also because the dimensions of the cards are the same, you have confusion from many sales people on whether a laptop has one interface or another. You litterally have to pop the protective plastic insert to see what the shape of it is to determine what interface a laptop has.

Ok. Rant over.

 

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