Speaking of wireless

[R. Sean Hartnett]

Actually I use the Linksys wireless equipment here and it works well.
The trick for me is that I use the external WAPs of theirs. 
I did not feel like playing with drivers and kernel issues, as mentioned
below, and some other things for me as well.
I simply plug a standard NIC into my system, and then from there I am
using their WAP11s doing 802.11b. Painless for the most part!
You may want to check out their units doing 802.11a, which would give
you a better choice of frequencies, and I also think bandwidth. 

			Have fun,
			Sean 

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 19:38, Ken Ambrose wrote:
> IMHO, stay the hell away from Prism chipsets (eg. the Linksys cards).
> You have to play all sorts of games with re-compiling:
> - your kernel
> - PCMCIA stuff from Sourceforge
> - linux-wlan drivers
> 
> None of this may necessary if you have a stock kernel -- they try to have
> stock binaries at the linux-wlan site.  Andy maybe someone's had an easier
> time of it than me.  But I've tried, twice, to get the darn drivers
> working.  The first time, after ages, I got it going, under RH 7.1.  I
> also finally got it working under 7.3... but now none of my /other/
> PCMCIA/Cardbus network cards work.  It's really, really, really annoying.
> 
> $.02,
> 
> -Ken
> 
> P.S.  The Linux "drivers" from the Linksys site are simply the linux-wlan
> drivers.  Check it out at http://www.linksys.com/download/driver.asp?dlid=59&osid=7 ,
> near the bottom.
> 
> 
> On 27 Aug 2002, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > There has been some talk lately about wireless devices, and I may be in
> > the market for some shortly. However, I can honestly say that I know
> > nothing about wireless. All I want to do is connect a Dual-boot
> > Win32/Linux PC and a Linux laptop to a wired network via a wireless
> > access point. What brands/models should I be looking at? I don't need a
> > wireless firewall/dhcp server/router/etc., since my firewall, mail
> > server, etc. will remain hard wired. Thoughts, comments, suggestions
> > welcome....
> >
> > TIA,
> > Kenny
> > --
> > "The ebb and flow of the Atlantic tides.
> > The drift of the continents.
> > The very position of the sun along it's ecliptic.
> > These are just a few of the things I control in my world."
> >
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