Hi,

I'm going to have a wireless LAN for my newly acquired P120 laptop. The laptop itself is running Slackware 9.0 and from tonight will have a wired 3Com NIC, I should hopefully get this working this evening once I know the model number etc. I'm then going to be looking for two wireless cards, one from the PC that runs Linux (2.5.68 :P). So I'm guessing that I can get some of the new stuff working too, my questions are:
[list=1][*]What PCI Wireless NIC do you advise for use solely on Linux?[*]What PCMCIA Wireless NIC do you recommed for my laptop?[*]How do you advise I sort out the bridging between the main system and the Laptop? The main system has a link to the switch that is connected to the rest of the network.[/list=1]

Thanks for any advice.

Shak

For the PCI card, a dwl-520 if you can find it, or if you are careful, a WMP11 (prior to version 2.5 when they went to the unsupported broadcom), or the Netgear PCI card. You can run a little know driver set that'll run that card as an Access Point:

http://hostap.epitest.fi/

Then just stick a dhcpd server on that eth device and iptables over the ip block from the wireless card with normal NAT.

For the PCMCIA card: the orinoco's are supported to mars and back, the WPC11, the DWL-650 or DWL-650H (not the DWL-650+), the MA401... if you check the thread in the top of hardware, these are all mentioned, and a few more.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks loads mate, Ill look into it now I have an idea

Shak

I've decided to get a Netgear MA311 for the desktop card, which uses the Orinoco / Hermes drivers and the Buffalo WLI-PCM-L11GP-3 for the laptop, this again uses the Orinoco / Hermes chipsets so I should be flying, I just need to read up on security etc.

Shak

Actually the MA311 uses the Intersil/Prism chipset, I thing the Buffallo does too, doesn't matter though, the orinoco_pci driver covers both... and the host_ap driver will work, which is a little tank! I would paste in here the uptime and the tx packets from ifconfig on my wireless router but the bugger took a nosedive when the power outage even drained the UPS last month Funny watching a machine restart and the line, "Filesystem unchecked for 330 days, check forced:"

Also, anyone reading this in the future, ignore what I said about the DWL-520, in the past few days I've had 3 threads and 5 mails about Dlink having switched the bloody chipset!!! I still don't know what the new one is, but I'll figure it out hopefully.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks for the help sir, and you'll notice I made a comment in affero about you Keep up the good work

Shak

Thanks Shak, you rock.

Oh, btw, that thing about the new DWL-520 turned out to be a supported card, the guy got mailed the driver source, it builds easily, but I can't find it at the ADMtek website, so here's a mirror link for posterity, I'll take it down if I find this stuff available elsewhere:

http://www.clockwatching.net/~fin/ra...211_src.tar.gz

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks again mate, I think I'm decided on the MA311 and the Buffalo, just need to wait until I've done my exams before I order.

Shak

Ok, I changed my mind again :sigh: I found a cheap Cisco 350 PCMCIA card on ebay and bought that and am getting a Belkin router/ap

Should be fun

Shak