Re: WIFI recommendations

From: Arjen (das_b2b_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/22/05 

Date: 21 Aug 2005 22:10:21 -0700

WEP-Routers are indeed os independent. But unless you wanna hack into
them (minicom?) during initial setup, having one pc/laptop running
windows98/2k/xp helps a great deal. After that, you can access your
wep-router through a browser.
As for the clients: I have Linksys WPC11 pcmcia for my laptop, and
several distro's recognize it immediately. For instance Ubuntu (debian
based) is a dream with it. When installing Ubuntu, just type in the
essid and possible encryption key, and voila.
For a server/firewall (remember the risks of using a wireless server -
Astaro has just abandoned wifi support for it's firewall) I also use
Linksys, WMP54G pci cards. These are recognized by Linux, but don't
work out of the box. My advice is to use Centos 4.1 as a server OS,
with Linuxant DriverLoader (I didn't get it to work with ndiswrapper).
Network clients running Mepis or Ubuntu work with the same card, but do
indeed function with ndiswrapper. Make sure you put the windows drivers
from the linksys cd in a directory first.
My Wireless Access Point is also Linksys, (I buy everything at
Dixons...), WRT54G. Through a linux client/browser, once you've set it
up with window$, it can be fully configured to do encryption, port
forwarding (SIP e.g.), and the like.
Finally, despite lots of postings, I didn't succeed in the field of
amd64/linksys wifi. If you have a 64bit workstation you wanna connect
wirelessly, use a 32 bit os and 32 bit windows drivers through
ndiswrapper.

General Schvantzkoph wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 09:33:37 +0200, Rob van Overbruggen wrote:
>
> > Hyja....
> >
> > I want to connect my linux server and laptops together with a wireless
> > network. None of the accesspoints / pcmcia cards seem to support linux out
> > of the box. Which brand and type would you suggest in buying that are best
> > suitable for linux ?
> >
> >
> > Greetings
> > Rob
>
> Routers are OS independent so you can use any router you want the problem
> is the PCMCIA cards. Here are some links
>
> http://prism54.org/
>
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html

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