On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Sean Schouten wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> Yesterday, I decided to make a directional wave guide (cantenna) out of an
> old can. When in the process of connecting the 50 Ohm coaxial cable that was
> to connect the wave guide to the Asus WL-138g PCI 802.11b adapter which it
> was allready connected to, I touched the conductor AND the shielding and
> thought that I felt a small electrical current running. Anyhow, the card
> doesn't seem to pick up wireless networks. Coul it be busted because of what
> I did?

If the power supply was not grounded properly or if you built up enough 
static charge before touching it then yes, you may have zapped it. The 
input RF stage of such cards is fairly sensitive.

Peter
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