Erich Titl wrote: > Hi Andy > > Andrew Haninger wrote: > >> Hello. >> > ... > >> I think the Linksys WMP600N would meet/exceed my needs. Any >> experiences with this card and a LEAF system? It sounds like people >> have had some success with it in Linux and BSD, so I'm hoping it would >> work with LEAF. >> >> Should I wait until a stable LEAF system based on Linux 2.6 is >> available? Would a different card work better? >> > > I am not aware of any imminent stable 2.6 release and I don't think your > card is supported in 2.4, but a card that is supported in 2.4 will most > probably work in a 2.6 environment. Unless you really need 802.1N you > could probably try something delivering 802.1b/g like an Atheros based card. > > cheers > > Erich > Another option would be to buy another wired NIC and a wireless AP supporting the wireless technology of your choice.
Bridge the new wired NIC to your 'internal' NIC, connect the new NIC to a LAN (not WAN) port on the wireless AP, and you should be good to go. I've run this way at a few sites and it's worked well for me. If you disable DHCP on the AP you can handle all the DHCP stuff on your LEAF box. Brent Gardner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
