Wireless (802.11) website?

[William F. Day]

Exactly.. thats how my setup is working, sorta.. my broadband(wireless type
dsl) into my tsl server with 2 nics out to a 8pt switch and the access point
is plugged with a standard rj45 directly into the switch.

Bill Day

Linux 2.2.20-1tr i586
  8:10pm  up 18 days, 10:06,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Hipp <mhipp at redmule.com>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: Wireless (802.11) website?


> On Tuesday 09 July 2002 07:54 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> > 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?
>
> You got it right. Just find wireless NICs that you can get working under
> Linux. The base-station could care less that the router and wireless
> clients are running Linux or anything else.
>
>
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