On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 16:40 -0400, Greg Michalski wrote: > Alex - Similar question - I have a "My Essentials" (aka Belkin) USB > b/g adapter that I couldn't get to run on my 6.06 which I abandoned > after following several of the different driver wrap guides I found > online at the time (before I joined the list and before Christmas 07 - > they were onsale cheap 'Black Friday' and I planned to get 2 - one for > home and one to float around the office at work since our illustrious > neanderthal leader fears connecting the whole office to the internet - > different discussion altogether, but there was only one left when I > made it to the store). I assumed the wrapping of the windows driver > was what was the problem but is there possibly more to it? When I'm > back healthy and using my mill again I plan to run CAT5 to the garage > but if there is something additional I may be able to try? Would save > buying a whole 'nother box of cable for this run. > > Greg > www.distinctperspectives.com
I'd suggest as the easiest way to fix this is to buy a pair of Linksys WRT54GL's. Set up one as an access point and the other as a client. You could probably use a directional antenna on each side and shoot through your walls, saving any wiring. I tend to use these: http://www.wallacecompany.com/biquad/ http://martybugs.net/wireless/biquad/ With OpenWRT firmware these WRT54GL's (and NSLU2's) become very handy which seems kind of a waste to run as a simple AP or client, but everything seems to be priced the same, so why not use them? In the past, I've used a sheet of aluminum bent to a parabolic shape mounted the router so that the stock antenna was at the focus. This seems to work very well. I had mine outdoors, so I had to occasionally change the garbage bag protecting them. Kirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
