Good Morning.

I urgently need to equip my home with wireless as I will be working from home for a period and won't be able to sit in the same room as my cable connection.

I have been quickly browsing some sites this morning but wanted a router that would work very easily with Linux.

My set up is simple I have one main PC running XP/Kubuntu, a laptop running Slack and my new shiny work laptop running xp and soon to be running either Kubuntu or Slack. I have an NTL (or rather Virgin) cable connection running at 2mb which at present I just connect either to the PC or the first laptop depending on what I am using.

So..... I just want everones recommendation. I have heard/read that Linksys seem to work very well with Linux and have seen a couple of routers from them. Are they the way to go??

All advice gratefull recieved.

Cheers

Gonzo

It does not matter which one you pick up. Linksys, Buffalo, ... all they work if you're talking about routers. The point is: your machine has a wireless card. The wireless card gets a signal from somewhere (router); that's what your machine knows. It's the same as with regular ethernet cards: the machine doesn't know about the outside world, it only knows that the card is providing it with information and that the card gets the information some way. Router, on the other hand, handles your connection, and most of them can be configured using a browser on a machine that is connected to the router: so, set up the router to handle your connection (very easy; most of them have a step-by-step wizard for doing it), plug a cable in and your every machine is on air that you want to: your operating system just needs to be capable of using the (wireless) card that is installed into it, and that's enough.