LC wrote:
Temlakos wrote:
LC wrote:
Hi,
I have a Fedora 4 as a router. How can i add wireless (wifi)
feature to it? What equipment do i need?
Best regards
I would imagine that you need an Access Point. But as to how to
drive one, I can't answer that.
Temlakos
More likely a wireless card:-)
One based on prism54 is good, I had one running in an FC2 beta, and more
recently in Ubuntu and Debian. However, they're hard to find.
Atheros seems good; I have one built into my laptop and it works well un
SUSE 10. Probably FC4 users have to build the driver, but that's fairly
straightforward. You meed the madwifi driver.
d-link is labelling a lot of its cards 'Atheros" or "DSP by TI."
Avoid broadcom (BCM), TI (ACX).
By using a wireless card, i can route Wifi machines into the internet?
What other program/software do i need?
I have a Netgear PCMCIA for my laptop (Atheros chip), and use a madwifi
kernel module I get from ATrpms (what was recommended on the madwifi
site) -- every time you install a new kernel, you have to install the
appropriate kernel module.
Here's the page for FC4 kernels:
http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/madwifi/
If you're going to use an Atheros chip, here's the madwifi page for
compatible hardware:
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility
Greg
