Hi being a netgear user and an orinocco user as well let me add my 2c worth.
I have tried the netgear's with hostap and no go, orinocco driver only. Why not go the simple method and get a access point and just connect it via ehternet to the box, nice and simple, the external AP can have a removeable aireal for better placement. As for the orinocco driver, the one in the kernel is not the best 11b or 11c I think, get the one from the web site 13c and it works a charm, haven't had a problem with it, 631Kb/s. Alex On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:08:25AM +1000, Crossfire wrote: > mick was once rumoured to have said: > > Hi All, > > > > A friend of mine (who owns a pub and will pay me in BEER! to fix > > this)has asked me to set up a wireless LAN for him. > > > > I suggested a Linux Box for the server, because I always recommended > > Linux. > > > > He has given me an IBM Aptiva for the server hardware (perfect), a > > netgear wireless Hub and a WG311 wireless LAN card for the server. He > > will use a Toshiba Laptop running XPoo to access all this wireless > > goodness. > > Why do you need to connect the server to the network wirelessly - this really > seems like the wrong thing to me. > > Netgear seems to like the Prism2 (Intersil) chipsets for their 802.11b cards. > Unfortunately I've found the orinocco driver is VERY unstable with these cards > at any real sustained datarate. For the pure Intersil Prism2 cards I > use the linux-wlan-ng drivers which seem fairly solid, just they're weird > to configure. > > According to Seatle Wireless, the WG311 is also Intersil Prism Based. > > On other thing you'll want to watch is that all the Intersil Prism2 based > designs I've seen so far require PCI2.2[1] which restricts you to Intel 440BX > and later chipsets. > > > If what you're realling intending to do is set up the linux box as a AP (which > is what I've done - and in fact, if SLUG would like a talk on it, and home > 802.11b wireless networks and security, start booking now. :) ) you'll want > to look at the hostap driver for linux which only works with intersil > prism cards. > > C. > [1] I may have the version number wrong - but the chipset range is right - > 440BX (which was a mainstream PII chipset) was the first model intel > chipset to support the relevant revision of PCI - most modern boards > support it fine. Pretty much every socket7 and earlier motherboard > in existance doesn't however. > -- > --==============================================-- > Crossfire | This email was brought to you > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons > --==============================================-- > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug >
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