Wireless (802.11) website?

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, David A. Bandel wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Jul 2002 20:12:14 -0700
> begin  "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> spewed forth:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> commercial "access points" cannot be used as anything but that, they can't
> be used as Master or Repeater stations.  It has to do with proprietary
> code in the cards, and the big boys don't want anyone to muck with their
> gravy trains.
>
> In a linux box, however, a wireless card in ad-hoc mode is basically an
> ethernet card.  You do need to understand radio signals and how they work,
> fresnell zones, and more, but that's not hard either.
>
> Tell me what you need, I'll give you more than you've ever wanted to know.

OK, what i attempted to diagram in my previous email was, that i'm
getting DSL activated this Friday at home.  My grand plan (excluding the
WiFi
stuff) is to run a Freesco box box that has 2 NICs, one plugged directly
into the DSL router that the DSL provider gives me, and then the other
plugged into a 10 port hub (yes, i know switches are better, but this is
all i have on hand, and all i can afford right now).  I've got 2 linux
boxes that my wife & I use, plus 2 laptops (also linux).  everything is a
static (10.x.x.x) IP, and will have the Freesco box as its gateway to the
internet.

Now my vision for wireless is to get 1 or 2 wireless cards for the
laptops, and a base-station/access-point.  Plug the access-point into the
hub, point it to the Freesco box as the gateway (as i'm already doing),
and then get the laptops online anywhere in my house.

So, is this possible, or am i completely misunderstanding what wireless
can do for me?

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