Wireless (802.11) website?

[Michael Hipp]

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!
> >
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