wireless access point

[Jerry McBride]

On Wednesday 21 January 2004 08:34 pm, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> Jerry
>
>   I like what I saw in pcmcia wireless cards. They were Linux friendly.
> Wish I had seen these before I bought what I did, although I think the SMC
> card looks to be the same. SMC did tell me that their card would work with
> Linux and if I had a problem to be sure to try Linuxant.com 2nd. That gets
> my vote too. Now David did say how to set iwconfig wlan0 with key. The
> problem I have is this laptop travels to differnt sites. I need it to go
> online no matter where I am. As always David has good help for all of us, &
> I do appreciate it David.
>
>

Just an add-on note here about pcmcia wireless. You can still get orinioco 
gold cards, maybe a bit high for what they are, but they do work like a 
charm. Also, they can be placed into monitor mode, excellent for wap 
hunting...


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