On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:46 -0800, Ken Kroel wrote: > Greetings all, > > I am in the market for a wireless router for the SO to connect her work > laptop and home pc. Both are Windows machines but there is always the chance > that my linux boxes will someday connect to it. > > The laptop is not brand new, so I doubt that its wireless card will be very > fast. My understanding is that 802.11n is still not finalized and given the > age of the equipment, I am thinking of going with an 802.11g router. I would > appreciate any recommendations on which wireless router would be the most > reliable and trouble free, for the best price. > No idea whether I got the best price and have the most reliable, trouble free, etc., router, but the Linksys WRT54GX2 I got from Fry's seems to work ok with my triple boot [ Ubuntu 6.10 | Fedora Core 6 | Windows XP ] laptop, the [Windows XP] laptop my company gave me, and a Macintosh [OS X], both wirelessly and wired. I think I can only implement 64-bit encryption with Linux. For some reason, the VPN from the company I work at doesn't connect through the router.
Fedora Core 6 took me (and a few of the local installfest gurus) quite a while to recognize my wireless adapter, but I think the problem wasn't on the router side. This information is just anecdotal, I presume. Christoph -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
