Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread Julian Thomas
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:31:33 -0400 fred smith wrote: David McGuffey wrote: Have decided to give up on the embedded Broadcom 4312 wireless device in my son's Dell laptop. I get WEP open authentication to work, but nothing else. I was about to dump the bcm43xx kernel module and the

Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Julian Thomas wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:31:33 -0400 fred smith wrote: David McGuffey wrote: Have decided to give up on the embedded Broadcom 4312 wireless device in my son's Dell laptop. I get WEP open authentication to work, but nothing else. I was about to dump the

Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread S.Tindall
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 17:06 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Julian Thomas wrote: Why not look at a small access point that plugs into the RJ45 and uses USB for power? DLink DWL-G730AP or other equivalent. If it really is an AP, it won't do the job, as an AP cannot be a client to

Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread Dag Wieers
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, S.Tindall wrote: As a side note, Tomato Firmware allows you to adjust transmitter power up to 6 times the normal level and that has let me go through some very think brick walls to pick up remote network cameras. We have to see what the result of that is on any offspring