[Gllug] Wireless hardware

[Ian Norton]

if you buy any atmel cards drop me an email, i have some good drivers for them
for 2.4.18,19 and 2.4.20

the ones i have are atmel (zonet zew 1000) at76c502ar cards. no antennae plug
tho but i only paid 22 quid each

Ian

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 06:20:51PM +0200, will wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am finally going to buy some wireless hardware to free me from the
> tangle of wires attached to my laptop.  I don't really know that much
> about wireless however so I was hoping to get some advice from the list. 
> The basic setup will be a base station (a PCI wireless card in my
> firewall?) and my laptop with a wireless card in it.  That is it.  I would
> like to be able to run the firewall in AP mode if possible.  I would also
> like to be able to attach an external antenna to the pcmcia card in my
> laptop too.
> 
> 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:
> 
> http://www.technetium.biz/acatalog/Orinoco.html
> 
> 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]
> 
> Also, can anyone recommend a PCI wireless card that will act as an AP?  I
> have had a look and the belkin site[1] and the F5D6001 seems to do the
> job:
> 
> http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=200435&pcount=&Product_Id=144544&Section.Section_Path=%2FRoot%2FNetworking%2FWirelessNetworking%2F
> 
> it get a mention on the consume site:
> 
> http://consume.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/WirelessHardware
> 
> It looks like I have pretty much narrowed down the hardware choices, what
> does gllug think about these, and any suggestions welcome!
> 
> Many thanks
> Will.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [0] I said I didn't know much about wireless!
> [1] I emailed Belkin and they said that they were going to put linux
> drivers on their website in 'due course' apparently.
> 
> 
> 
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