Am Do, den 04.08.2005 schrieb Belmin (Pub) um 4:46: > I currently have a machine working as my router using Fedora. I have it > setup perfectly with iptables. I'm looking to add wireless capabilities > but my PCI slots are full. Anyone been successful using USB? I have no > idea where to start (ie, what specifications should I look at when > looking at USB hardware)? You do not speak about what type of WLAN you request: is 802.11b (11 MBit) enough or is 802.11g (54 MBit) requested? If 11MBit is sufficient you can watch out for old Prism chipset based sticks. If you ask me, I would anyway watch out for the quicker WLAN standard 802.11g. I recently pointed here on the list to http://sourceforge.net/projects/zd1211/ while I can't say something specific about the stability of that open source kernel driver. A different open source driver project is http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page where the rt2570 driver is for USB WLAN sticks. Lists of supported hardware are http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Hardware http://ralink.rapla.net/ and can be used as a guide when watching out for hardware to buy. Hardware differs whether being able to run in AP mode or ad-hoc mode. > I know with PCI it had to do something with making sure you could set > the card to master. How does this apply to USB? With "master" you speak about PCI busmaster mode? As far as I know USB it works differently. Simply plug&pray. > Belmin Fernandez Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 15:23:43 up 19 days, 19:56, load average: 0.12, 0.13, 0.09
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