On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus:
> > > On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Luke Kearney wrote: > > > Hi List, > > I am looking to purchase a wireless PCI card for a new machine here at > > my home. I was wondering if anyone can share sucess or horror stories > > about the Elecom range of products. I am wanting to use one machine as > > what is its chipset ???? > - if you cannot answer that, than you're in for some fun AR5001X+ > > and which driver for it > > look at the box very very carefully, but itd be even better if oyu can > see under the metal cover of the pci card > - all manufacturers are famous for using a different chipset > on the pci/pcmcia cards even if the make/model/version is > the same > The staff get a bit wild eyed when they see customers opening the boxes where I shop unfortunately. The Atheros website has a cool tool I have just found for locating cards with their chipset ( which all makers had similar tools ). I guess the remaining question would be if anyone has had trouble with the drivers for this chipset? > > the access point and one machine as the client. I wasn't planing to > > good idea .. :-) > > linux AP howto > http://linux-wireless.org/AP/#AP 'preciate the link. > > == using ndiswrapper will most likely not allow you to be an AP > Was going to stay away from ndiswrapper if possible. > in order for linux ( your wireless card ) to be used as an AP, > - it must support Master mode for the AP and > managed mode for the clients properly > > - if you want adhoc mode ... that's another ymmv > - if you want shared key mode ... thats another ymmv > - if you want 64bit wep or 128bit wep .... thats another ymmv > - if you want WPA .... thats a major ymmv > - lots o fun > > > deploy a hardware access point though if the consensus is that a > > hardware access point is the better way to go I could certainly start > > looking at this. > > if you use a commercial AP... you might be able to get online faster, > but they made a few bucks off of you > > c ya > alvin Thanks -- Luke Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
