excellent, thanks for the explanation. i don't care about making the workstations that i have wireless. they're both in the same place. i just want to be able to grab my laptop, and sit in the bedroom, or wherever, and get online.
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Michael Hipp wrote: > If you just want your Linux box to be wireless, all you need is a wireless > access point sitting on a shelf somewhere and connected to your LAN. If it > is a Linksys model, you config it via browser. Think of it as a hub with > no wires. Er, actually 1 wire, the one connecting to the LAN that gets the > wireless 'puters out to the big wide world. But in any case, no O/S issues. > > BTW, pick the location carefully. Once the signal starts passing through > walls, it goes to nothing in a hurry. Installed a setup last week in an > Attorney's house. Pretty big house prolly 4000+ square feet. With the > access point/router in the geographic center of the house, Signal was > approaching unusable at both ends of house. This particular AP/Rtr connects > directly to the DSL and handles the PPPoE for DSL as well as NAT, DHCP and > all the wireless stuff. It will also do VPN. My attorney friend bragged > later that he could surf the net on his laptop while sitting on the > "throne". > > You then need a USB, PCI or PCcard wireless NIC connected to the roving > Linux box. Like any NIC, of course, you need a module/driver. I'm told > plenty of them work, but I can't say that for sure. LinkSys usually gives > Linux setup info for their devices. > > Michael > > On Monday 08 July 2002 10:12 pm, Net Llama! wrote: > > i guess i'm showing my ignorance. so a base-station/access-point is > > basically an embedded device that doesn't need an OS based driver to > > work? > > > > i guess i need "wireless for dumbies", cause i don't fully understand > > how it all comes together. > > > > Michael Hipp wrote: > > > I'm not sure what sort of compatibility issue there could be with base > > > stations (I'm assuming base station = access point). The various PCI, > > > USB and PCcards would more likely pose problems. > > > > > > http://www.linksys.com has some pretty good data here and there. They > > > even acknowledge the existence of Linux. > > > > > > I've used their wireless gear without problems, but not all of it in > > > all configurations. > > > > > > Michael > > > > > > On Monday 08 July 2002 09:49 pm, Net Llama! wrote: > > >>Does anyone know of a good website that shows what kind of wireless > > >> gear works with linux? I'm more concerned with the base stations than > > >> anything else. thanks! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
