On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 08:30, criggie wrote: > Blars - I've got the exact same setup here. I bought an Intersil > Prism-based chipset (a DLink DWL-500 card which is a DWL-650 PCMCIA card > in a PCI adapter) and on the linux box I use the hostAP module. This > provides all of the functionality of an access point inside the card's > hardware, rather than in software. > > Search google for "hostap" and "prism" I'll email you some links from > work later today.
Big table of chipsets on cards - very useful http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html4.html Another list of Prism2 cards http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/Prism2Card HostAP utils in debian http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/hostap-utils.html HostAP driver info http://hostap.epitest.fi/ Shotgun aerial - the classic pringles can improved. http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 Intersil - makers of the prism chipsets http://www.intersil.com/design/prism/ss/p2smtrx.asp Hardware Comparison http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/HardwareComparison More generic info on devices and drivers in linux - covers other chipsets too. http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.html Yes - I'm karma whoring, but these links helped me out.
