Easy instructions for wireless card installation?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:01:20 -0500 (EST)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > As to supported cards, I (once again) recommend www.linuxant.com,
> > especially if you want to use a higher speed card (802.11g). I use this
> > with a D-LINK 802.11b PCI card and it works great. They have a list of
> > the cards/chipsets they support.
> >
> > Every distro seems to me to be different in how this is set up. Maybe if
> > you stick to the really standard (slower, usually 802.11b) cards, most
> > modern distros will pick them up and install them just like any other
> > PCI network card. But do check out linuxant.
> 
> Something that alot of people fail to recognize is that unless you're
> using wifi on a LAN, odds are, you're never going to be able to use the
> bandwidth available in 802.11a or g.  Most people's home internet
> connections are still slower than what 802.11b provides as a theoretical
> maximum.

Yep. I want the faster speed for two boxes using the 802.11g cards to talk
fast to each other. Totally an internal network speed thing, as is the case
with the old wire card - even though it is 10 mBit (theoretical), the speed
to the outside is limited by other factors. But between two machines on a
local network there is a difference. We use this fact to great advantage
in our measurement systems where we still measure actual data transfer rates
in baud. Our 10mBit cards are doing 8000000 baud sustained transfers. On a
local ethernet network, of course. We have not tried this with wireless as
we do not have any VME or PMC wireless cards. In the real world, I would
expect far too much disturbance on the wireless network.

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