Advice needed on wlan

xilent · 08-05-2003, 03:37 AM

Hey Guys,

I am about to buy a couple of 2nd hand laptops and wish to add them to my home network (all CAT5e 10/100) using a wlan access point, could anybody recommend a access point and pcmcia cards that have the best linux compatibillity?

(lowest price would be good - more money for my laptop then ,

cheers,

xilent, UK

Gªutama · 08-05-2003, 04:22 AM

I use the

Lucent Technologies
Orinoco 11 Mbit/s Silver

card. I have never had any problems at all with it. Works like a charm.
And it was super easy to install, atleast in mandrake 9.0.

Don't know about the Gateway since I don't handle them. Sorry

xilent · 08-05-2003, 06:55 AM

cool cheers for that,

keep 'em coming everyone else - as many recommendations as possible would be much appreciated!,

xilent

bbeers · 08-05-2003, 10:18 AM

for Linux compatible wireless cards, see this URL:

http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html4.html

If you already have a linux box on your wired net, why not get a PCI wireless card in there and make it the access point? see this URL:

http://hostap.epitest.fi/

A little bit of work, but what fun!

-bbeers