I've been considering a purchase of 3 HP Lucent ORiNOCO Silver Wireless PCMCIA cards for my home network. I chose this card specifically because there are Linux drivers for it and an external antenna can be connected to it using a standard adapter cable (like http://www.nxgenstore.com/nxgen/itemdesc.asp?CartId=3890601UINHB791&ic=WRJCMW19M) to increase the range.
Just so you know, a wireless access point or base unit is not required: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/03/06/recipe.html, which is the reason I want to buy 3 cards: 1 for my firewall/gateway using a PCMCIA slot adapter, and 2 for my 2 laptops. You can save a lot of money by not having to purchase the base WAP unit. I found a pretty good deal at: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/justdeals/luctecorsil1.html, but I was thinking that a large group could get a better deal by making a big purchase of the same WLAN cards at one time. Does anyone have experience with making volume purchases for a group like this? How well does it work? Thanks, John Hebert ps: By the way, I am one of the group coordinators at the Baton Rouge Linux Users Group: www.brlug.net. pps: anyone know of other Louisiana Linux User Groups that I should contact? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
