[SLUG] Wireless network PCMCIA
Hi, I'm travelling overseas soon and I will be taking my laptop with me. Is anyone able to suggest a good PCMCIA wireless network card that is supported by linux (gentoo flavour)? And also as I don't know much about wireless yet (I will learn when I get one) I want a product with a good range, reliable and of course that supports as many configurations as possible (I know there is b/g? But as of yet don't know which is better etc). Thanks, Luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Wireless network PCMCIA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm travelling overseas soon and I will be taking my laptop with me. Is anyone able to suggest a good PCMCIA wireless network card that is supported by linux (gentoo flavour)? I've had great results with the Linksys WPC54g and ndiswrapper, but have only tried to connect it to a Linksys AP. It sustains 1.4Kb/s transfers between my laptop on the ground floor and the AP on the first, complete with OpenVPN securing the connection. This is also with Fedora (FC2, heavily modified); no idea about Gentoo, but I can't see why any recent distribution couldn't use it. Thanks I'll look into the Linksys line. Does anyone have an idea of the ranges of these things... Just out of curiousity, while I'm overseas I might be able to test the security of some networks by checking my emails? (this is pretty much all I'll need the internet for...and submitting photos to a gallery, my laptop will mainly be used otherwise for work/photo storage) Luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Wireless network PCMCIA
Thankyou for the comprehensive reply! I have a bunch of stuff to consider now :) Thanks again Luke Lindsay Holmwood wrote: There are a lot of different cards out there, but fortunately most of them are supported in one way shape or form under Linux nowdays. To sum up the wireless standards: 802.11b - 11mbit/s max, medium range, compatible with g 802.11g - 54mbit/s max, short range, compatible with b 802.11a - 54mbit/s max, short-medium range, /standard/ not compatible with b/g - b and g are the most widely used standards. - Most 'a' equipment *is* able to interoperate with b and g. - Stick with b and g. Wikipedia is your friend! For the least amount of resistance, try getting something that uses the orinoco or prism2 drivers (although stray away from prism2_usb - spawn of satan!). They're probably the best supported out of the box under Linux, although there are a lot of other cards which work exceptionally well. Most of the different wireless projects out there have lists of cards known to work with them. Projects include: - linux-wlan-ng (802.11b) [1] - madwifi (802.11a/g/b) [2] (I think they're PCI/miniPCI only) - rt2x00 (802.11b/g) [3] - atmel wlan (802.11b/g(?)) [4] - rtl8180-sa2400 [5] - orinoco/prism2 [6] If you want something with a lot of range, try getting a Senao 2511-CD PCMCIA card. It has a very decent transmit rating (200mW), good sensitivity, and uses the orinoco driver. If you're on a budget, I can't recommend enough the Minitar[7] range of wifi equipment. Their drivers are fully open source(rt2x00), and their cards are made rather well. Generally, i'd suggest looking around online retailers and seeing what you can find within your price range. Most cards you'll be able to score for ~$75. Once you've found something that interests you, do a quick Google for Linux compatibility on it. You'll most likely find that it's supported, though some cards are more supported than others. You can always go the NdisWrapper route too. The NdisWrapper[8] lets you load a Windows driver in Linux. Most of the cards that aren't supported natively under Linux will work with the wrapper, but it adds an extra layer of complexity. I've setup and used the wrapper on a number of occasions and haven't had any problems with it. It can be quite helpful if you end up buying something that you thought was compatible but isn't. :-) Personally, i'd steer clear of any D-Link equipment with a '+' at the end of the product name. They use a Texas Instruments chipset that's got no official support, and the last time I checked the open source driver[9] was a bit flaky (ie, I couldn't get it to work). That was 18 months ago. If you have your heart set on D-Link equipment, make sure you can get it going first! Basically it comes down to this: know exactly what you're buying and make sure other people before you have gotten it to work. Cheers, Lindsay [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11 [1] http://linux-wlan.org/ [2] http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page [4] http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/news.html [5] http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/ [6] http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Orinoco.html [7] http://www.minitar.com/index.php?maincat=productcat=wirelessprod=wls_cardbuspage=1 [8] http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ [9] http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ Luke Ring wrote: Hi, I'm travelling overseas soon and I will be taking my laptop with me. Is anyone able to suggest a good PCMCIA wireless network card that is supported by linux (gentoo flavour)? And also as I don't know much about wireless yet (I will learn when I get one) I want a product with a good range, reliable and of course that supports as many configurations as possible (I know there is b/g? But as of yet don't know which is better etc). Thanks, Luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] PDA + Linux - what's a recipie for success?
Hey, I sync up with my K750i... I use MultiSync and it works great... This page here has some info on Kontact and Multisync / other sync http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=39478 Hope this is useful. Luke James Gray wrote: Hi All, Following Nick Tomlin's tale of woe, I was wondering if anyone has a good Linux + PDA combination that synchronises with your favourite mail/calendar software? What about these new whiz-bang phones with PDA functions too? Personally I'm looking (in a casual way) for a PDA that will sync up with KDE's Kontact. I've heard people report varying degrees of success with Evolution but I'm a KDE-kinda-guy (it's sad but true). Any success stories from people on this list? James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ping from elsewhere
Is this what you were after? http://network-tools.com/ Found: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclientie=utf-8oe=utf-8q=ping Luke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. A while back I used an internet site that allowed you to test connections to your own machine from elsewhere on the internet. I can't find that site anymore. Does anyone know which site does this. It did ping. web. etc. Kind regards. Luke. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Video Editing Software
Thanks I will check them out :) Luke Rev Simon Rumble wrote: On 19/7/2005, Luke Ring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any decent video editing software for linux? I just have to do some simple resampling (lower frame rate to 15fps, currently 30) and resizing of videos (from 640x480, to something less). You seem to be suggesting you don't actually want video editing software. To resize video and do format translation, you want transcode. It has a bewildering array of options, so look at some of the recipes and tweak as necessary: http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Video Editing Software
Does anyone know of any decent video editing software for linux? I just have to do some simple resampling (lower frame rate to 15fps, currently 30) and resizing of videos (from 640x480, to something less). They are currently in quicktime format (straight of the digital camera), and I want to convert them to DivX, or something smaller so I can put them up on our band's website. Thanks, Luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
