i'm thinking of putting a couple home machines on a wireless LAN, and i'm interested if anyone else has advice on the following.
currently, there are two machines: 1) desktop running windows XP 2) laptop running red hat 8.0 currently, both of those are plugged into a linksys 4-port dsl/cable router (which acts as a DHCP server), while the router itself is plugged into a dsl modem, all of which works just fine. i'd like to make the laptop wireless, so the obvious purchase is the linksys wireless access point router with a 4-port switch. allegedly, it's got the same 4-port configuration so the desktop can stay the way it is. the only change (as i was told) is that it's *exactly* the same as the 4-port wired unit, but with an added wireless access point. and once that's done, a choice for pcmcia wireless card. while i've heard great things about orinoco cards, if the related linksys card works, one would think that that would be a safe choice to go with the router. if i can verify that this would work, i'd like to order real soon now. comments? rday p.s. in terms of prices, the router is priced at $90 at buy.com, while the pcmcia card is $60. not overly expensive to start going wireless.
