Hi friend M Lu, Hi readers, I have used old PC boxes with Leaf distros from several years. All this projects are very attractive. I am using Bering from Jacques Nilo's group because I think it is the most active and reactive Leaf branch, as you can read on this mailing list.
I am using IEEE802.11b networks for my personal use, but also for few communities, one is for Radio HAMs. I use actualy an external ethernet Access Point with success, but I plan to switch quickly to a Soekris embeded PC solution, with PCMCIA Prism 2 cards (exactly 2 PCMCIA and 1 Mini PCI wireless cards simultaneous). I have yet the Soekris board which seems the "nec plus ultra", the best embeded PC for that type of applications. The PCMCIA cost is lower than a complete A.P. and we cand do more features with Linux than a totaly closed A.P. ;-) It is easyer, also, to put a Soekris embeded PC in an external sealed box than a complete old full tower PC :-))) Soekris is PoE powered, from 11 V to 58 V, and higher is the voltage, lower are the Ethernet cable voltage losses. It is also easyer to maintain a "fresh and cool" temperature in a little box than in a big one, when the box is outside under the sun, the same for reverse winter's temperatures. But, honesty, I have not yet been abble to work well with this new (for me) kind of PC for this time. I am fighting with hostap configuration, because I have not yet well understood how to do... I have checked Whisp-dist which works quasi immediatly (bravo Vladimir !), but I am a little disturbed by this distro which is "packages compatible" with Bering and major Leaf projects, but very different instead. So, I prefer to continue with Bering, which is more proach to Debian file structure and easyer, for me, to understand with my "little" Bering experience done during monthes, with the help of all friends of this list. Vladimir Ivaschenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has done a great distro with Whisp-dist, but I want well understand all the parts of my routers, and I am "more cool" with Bering than Whisp-dist. I will take a look from time to time to Vlad's distros evolutions for the pleasure, but, for now, I will deploy Bering only, I I can resolve my PCMCIA problem soon. I hope to have reply to your main question, friend. I wish a long life to Leaf Projects and Source Forge ! Best Regards, Francois BERGERET, France. > -----Message d'origine----- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de M Lu > Envoyé : dimanche 22 juin 2003 07:07 > À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet : [leaf-user] What is advantage of wireless NIC in Bering? > > > Hello all, > > Is there any advantage of having a wireless NIC in the Bering router as > explained in the manual over just connecting the wireless router-AP to one > wired hub and then other machines with wireless NICs will use that AP. > > With wireless NIC in Bering, I need to buy Orinoco card and also the adapter > which could cost more than a normal router/AP. Besides as the Orinoco Gold > card is discontinued, what could I use instead? > > Thank you. > > M Lu. > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU > Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. > Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! > INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
