On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 18:24, Austin Isler wrote: > Or I should say PCI adapters. :) Since you're asking about PCI adapters and wireless, is it safe to assume you're thinking of using wireless to connect from some distance because you can't get broadband where you are? I am using an Orinoco Silver card (external antenna connector), with a SCM SBI-D2P swapbox adapter in an pII-366. Works just fine with Fedora, no special config or tweaking necessary. I've used these cards with various PCI and ISA adapter cards as well, never had any problems. Very easy to setup. All versions of linux that I've tried just see the card during install. Besides that, there's a California Amplifiers directional antenna (model 130094-130135) on a 40ft tower (LMR400 cable), and an amp (unfortunately fed into the furthest point from the antenna - read: loss of almost half my power) which is pointed to an omni directional AP 10km (over the horizon in this area) away. I can easily get an 11M connection to the AP (from there to the rest of the net, it's 2M symmetrical). Never had any problems with connectivity through the winter, but now that trees are budding, I get occasional dropouts, though I admit I'm shooting my signal through trees on my property - pine, poplar and maple. I need to either move/raise the tower, or get a chainsaw :) Get yourself a good line of sight and don't setup in late fall like I did, you'll only end up having to tweak it in the spring. Mail me off-list if I can be of any help. Ron
