Kent West writes: > I've got two Debian (Sid) boxes in different parts of the house. Can I > put in a wireless NIC into each one of them, and them talk to each > other, or must I have a Wireless Access Point as an intermediary?
You don't need a WAP, just put the cards into Ad-hoc mode. You would do this in your /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, I believe--the Managed option. > And one more: why can't I find a PCI wireless NIC, instead of a PCI > wireless NIC adapter plus a wireless PCMCIA NIC? To me, that seems > stupid. (But then, someone mentioned that the Apple wireless Airport > basestation does the same thing; puts a wireless PCMCIA nic in an adapter.) I imagine that's because they expect that most wireless stations will be laptops and that anything with a PCI slot free is likely to have an ethernet port, which is connected to the local LAN, which is connected to the wireless repeater. Andrew.