[Preston] Wireless Internet connection

[entwisi]

You need to look at the hostap driver set, I use them with a MDK 9.1
setup and a prism 2.5 chipset wifi adaptor.

Ian
On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 12:53, Guy Heatley wrote:
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> At the meeting the other day we were discussing the potential for wireless 
> Internet connections in Preston.
> I connect via a firewall: Smoothwall. I would want to use a firewall if I had 
> a broadband connection.
> 
> I believe the prism2 chipset is the best supported under Linux but I looked 
> on the Smoothwall 1.0 distro disk in /lib/modules/2.2.23/net and I couldn't 
> see a module that whose name suggested prism2 (prism2_pci ?) support.
> 
> I also found this information:
> ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/README
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a way to get Smoothwall to work with a wireless 
> NIC?
> - -- 
> Guy
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