[Gllug] connection to wireless network

[john gennard]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, "Wiehe, Simon" <simon.wiehe at csfb.com>

 >I suppose the first thing to be wary of is this is not strictly 
 >legal, unless your neighbour has said it is OK for you to steal
 >his bandwidth.

I am not stealing his bandwidth, I'm using it with his permission - 
the offer came from him (a friend), and, in fact, he provided and
set up the Belkin Adapter under W2000.

 >Saying that, and this by no means justifies your actions, he/she 
 >should not be stupid enough to leave the connection totally open.

The connection is encrypted between me and his home network, and
he has software denying anyone from using any hot spots he creates,
so I'm fairly sure he does not leave it open.

 >My experience on wireless with Linux is there are no native device
 >drivers for any PCI wireless cards. I used an access point connected
 >at the Linux end of the network and put the wireless card into the
 >WinXP machine I wanted to link to my network. This meant I could 
 >avoid the hassle of trying to use the NDIS wrapper under Linux. 
This >however would not work for you as you would need your access 
point >as a bridge and your neighbours route/access point also 
configured >to bridge.

That's a bit beyond me. I know there are drivers which work under
Debian without trying to use ndiswrapper. I can ask on debian-user,
but, as when I attend Gllug meetings there seems such a wide band of
expertise, I thought here was my best starting point.

Thank you for your response.

Thanks also to Adrian McMenamin and Russell Howe for their helpful 
contributions. I offer thanks here to reduce list traffic.

However, noone has commented on an extension lead and its likely
effective length.

Regards,				John.


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