Hello all,
Is there any advantage of having a wireless NIC in the Bering router as explained in the manual over just connecting the wireless router-AP to one wired hub and then other machines with wireless NICs will use that AP.
I do not *quite* understand your question, so let me answer it two ways.
There are considerable advantages in having the wireless LAN separate from the wireline LAN. They derive from the poor security models (WEP, MAC-address authentication) built into WiFi, which make using a separate security model for a WiFi LAN desirable.
There is no particular advantage to using a WiFi card in a Bering router in preference to using an ordinary NIC connected to an external WAP. One or the other approach might be cheaper, easier, or tidier.
What I would *not* recommend is connecting a WAP to the hub or switch that serves the wireline LAN, thus giving WiFi clients unfirewalled access to the LAN (and pretty much to the Internet). I'd still use a 3-NIC Bering router, just using ordinary NICs rather than a WiFi card, and use its firewalling capabilities to control what WiFi clients can do with respect to the wireline LAN and the Internet.
With wireless NIC in Bering, I need to buy Orinoco card and also the adapter which could cost more than a normal router/AP. Besides as the Orinoco Gold card is discontinued, what could I use instead?
As a general matter, the linux-wlan-ng project supports cards that use the Prism chipset. (I've used a D-Link DWL-520, a PCI card, for example). I haven't checked if these add-on modules are available for Bering, though.
But at least here in the USA, it would (usually, depending on the current week's sale prices) be cheaper to by an external WAP and a NIC than to buy a Linux-compatible WiFi card.
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