Help me out of wireless hell

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:14:36AM -0400, Tom Buskey wrote:

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> 
> So, she returned the card, got a different brand, & everything's 
> working.  Yep, the linksys card should've worked, but why spend another 
> minute on it when you have a solution that works?

  Well, this is precisely why I'm inclined to keep the card.  It works
perfectly where I *need* it to work.  And if it hadn't been for the
WPC11v3/WAPv2.2 incompatibility, I would have had it working very quickly.
The drivers I grabbed from linux-wlan.com worked with very little tweaking,
once I tried it against the WAP where I'm doing my work.

  The home based WAP is more of a 'nice to have'.  I'd rather spend a little
time looking for an alternative WAP than change a card I know works where
it's more important.

  Then again, I *might* change my mind.  The Linksys WAPv2.2 is a cheap
and therefore popular choice.  I'd might rather have a card that works with
it.

> FWIW, I like the compaq card better then the addtron.  It works with 
> Netstumbler.  The addtron works with kismet though.
> 
> I should mention that all this testing was done using WinXP :-/

  Ah.  That changes the picture quite a bit, I'd say.  I haven't had any
problems with the Linux/WPC11v3 combination outside of the WAPv2.2 issue.

> OB unix: ok, my DHCP server is NetBSD
> OB Linux: my laptop is dual boot.  I usually run Mandrake 8.2.  WinXP 
> boots faster though :-(

  Betcha my OS (Red Hat 7.3 on a 500MHz Toshiba Tecra 8100) boots faster than
your OS.  ;-)  (Here's to hoping we never meet when we both happen to have our
laptops so you can't prove me wrong :-)).

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