frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I use the orinoco Gold card for my laptop, and a usb ethernet adapter for my Desktop. (not sure of the brand right now, but it is blue in color)
I also use the smc wireless barricade as a router.
All are easily found online to purchase, and work great under linux.
Frank
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 02:46, Richy wrote:
I plan to use wireless network with my Fedora Core 1 at home. I got two PC in my home, one used by my wife is a laptop with winxp, the other desktop with fedora used by myself. I want to install a wireless LAN in my home and connect to internet by ADSL.
So, it seems that I need a wireless access point with ADSL and a
wireless pci card. Is there any suggestion about purchase a wireless pci
card for my fedora? I usually find buy a hardware for linux need more
attention.
Search the archives, search google. Use what others have used. Orinoco cards are very popular, I like the old prism2 cards and their HostAP features. Find a chipset that's well supported, then with the range you'll need.
-- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net
Just my $0.02.
I've found the orinco cards to work just fine but the SMC Barricade's wireless handling tends to crash if pushed by a single user or have more than one user doing many transactions (downloading whilst browsing, whatever). This seems to be excabarated if there is a wireless XP machine. We've not seen the same problems with D-Link (like a rock!) or Linksys wireless routers.
If you run wireless I'd at least enable WEP to stop casual users from connecting to your network (unless you want them to that is).
Mike
