Having built another backend for some spares and some new capture
cards, I want to get it accessible via WiFi on my network (g-based).
Could any UK-based users (anyone else is more than free to join in
though) suggest any decent PCI wireless network cards, that use native
drivers (not ndis-wrapper) that they can report work well. There seem
to a a lot of madwifi supported cards, which would you suggest?
I'd recommend NOT using a PCI wireless network card at all, but an external device instead. The easiest to configure by far is an ethernet-to-wireless bridge. You configure regular ethernet, plug it into the bridge instead of the switch (or into the switch, and the uplink of the switch into the bridge if you want to connect several computers by wire and then all of them to wireless). The next best thing is USB wireless, but I don't know if any 11g adapters are supported by Linux, I only tried 11b. The problem with the PCI card is that the antenna is very close to the backplane of the case and is nicely shielded. You can get external antennas, but then you'd pay more than the cost of a USB or an Ethernet wireless device, and it does not work any better.
Fedor
I get a very good connection in the house with my intel-2200 based
laptop under RHEL4, so soemthing similar that would allow 1-2 streams
to be transmitted would be ideal.
The alternative is to use a wired->wireless bridge to do the dirty
work, and just stick a NIC in the box, but the bridges cost more than
my router/AP did ...
Cheers,
Nick
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