[Gllug] easily configured wireless cards

[Liad Bokovsky]

Stephen,

The DWL-120 is an alternative to the PCI Adaptor and PCMCIA card, it is
not an Access-Point. I use the Apple Airport (the old version) as a
bridge to my ADSL router. The Airport supports up to 10 Wireless clients
(I think). The new version might support more. 

There are a lot of Access-Points out there but I really like the bridging
capability and the built in modem (was very useful when my ADSL was down
for more then a month...).

You can use two wireless cards to connect between two machines in a
peer2peer like network but I would recommend getting an Access-Point.

If you have a laptop and a wireless pcmcia card, you can browse the net
in many locations around London for free(!).

http://www.free2air.org/

Which is kewl!

There is one specific coffee shop in the WC area that is just within the
wireless range of some network. To bad they don't have free coffee
refills ;-)


Liad




On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 12:19:56AM +0800 , Stephen Liu mentioned that:

>Hi Liad,
>
>Re : D-Link DWL-120 USB Wireless
>
>Wireless is new to me.  Could you please provide me some information as 
>follows;
>
>1) How many clients it can support.  How to find it out from its spec.
>2) Workstation
>Is card for workstation available or have to use an adaptor for laptop card



>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Stephen
>
>
>At 04:47 PM 8/30/2002 +0100, Liad Bokovsky wrote:
>
>>I use the D-Link DWL-120 USB Wireless.
>>Works on my Linux and MS machines. Minimum setup was necessary.
>>
>>The USB solution is good idea. I can even use it with my laptop or any
>>other PC I bring into my house with out starting to open the case.
>>
>>-liad
>>
>>
>>On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:28:05PM +0100 , Xander D Harkness mentioned that:
>>
>> >Having spent some time trying to configure a 3com 3crwe62092a without
>> >success and not being able to find any relevant information on the net I
>> >have decided to buy a card that shows at least an acknowledgement of the
>> >existance of Linux by the manufacturer.  (This rules out 3com who from
>> >theit website might as well have had their head stuck in the sand for
>> >the last five years).
>> >
>> >I was hoping someone could suggest a card that is realily configured
>> >(i.e. make amd model).  Even when looking to buy a card from Dabs or
>> >similar the chipset is rarely mentioned.
>> >
>> >Kind regards
>> >Xander
>> >
>> >
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