Hadn't heard of WPA before, thanks for the heads up. However, he said he wanted to connect to the ULL WLAN because, I assume, ULL does not provide a network jack to each dorm room. So, a WAP would be kinda useless. But who knows? Maybe Stephen just has a network cable phobia.
Stephen, can you clarify whether or not ULL provides a network jack to your dorm room? If so, and it is free, you don't need a wifi card (unless you wanna be an "inquisitive" geek). If not, then prepare to fortify your desktop against the hax0r hordes. Also, you need to make sure before purchasing your card that you can actually _receive_ ULL WLAN traffic to your dorm room. Remember that wifi traffic is just RF and can be stopped by all kinds of obstructions: wood, metal, electrical fields, etc. Wifi WLAN connections usually have to be line of sight. There are some parts of my house where I can not get a good signal, yet there are other parts that are farther away where I can connect just fine. It really depends on lots of factors. The odds are it won't work in a dorm room unless you can put your PC next to a window with line of sight to a WAP. John Hebert -----Original Message----- From: Dustin Puryear To: [email protected] Sent: 8/11/03 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Wireless adapter question (for college) At 11:05 PM 8/10/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Hello, > >I will be leaving for ULL on the 15th, and would like a suggestion as to a >wireless network card for my PC. Will the PC be running Linux or Windows? If Windows go ahead and get a card and AP that will do WPA (i.e., Belkin). That way you don't need to worry about broken WEP anymore. As far as I know there isn't any Linux support for WPA yet. --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology, LLC <http://www.puryear-it.com> Providing expertise in the management, integration, and security of Windows and UNIX systems, networks, and applications. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
