On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 15:32 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > 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 Inconsistencies in chipsets used by some manufacturers exists where the same part number may encompass different chipsets, not all of which are Linux friendly. Here is yet another link: http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz Unfortunately there is no absolute way to tell what are getting. It's a crap shoot. Bob...
