[Gllug] Wireless hardware

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Tue 17 Jun, will bloviated thus:

> People recommend Lucent stuff (in particular the orinoco card) and lucent
> is now avaya and so I think one of the top two cards here might be OK:

That's a bit out-of-date.  These days people recommend Prism 2.5
chipset cards.  I can't name any but I'm sure you can find some with
some googling.  If you want to run as an Access Point, you'll need
that chipset.

> Is it worth going for the gold (128 bit RC4 encryption) or will the silver
> (64 bit RC4 encryption) bo OK?  Will the Linux drivers even support 128
> bit encryption on a wireless card?[0]

Encryption is WEP.  WEP is crap.  Encrypt at a higher layer.

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