On Saturday September 6 2003 11:02 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 3:03 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote:
> > Ok all, I have decided to ditch the wires and go wireless for
> > my ADSL Modem/router/Accesspoint and NIC at home. What is the
> > guts of it?? Nowadays adsl modems and nic's almost always work
> > with Linux (my Nokia Modem/Router and Generic NIC work great
> > under 9.1/Cooker). What are the pitfalls to watch out for to go
> > wireless? What websites for wirelss under Linux do you
> > recommend? Any brands known to work, not work with Linux??
> > Right now on TradeMe.co.nz there seems to be a good deal on the
> > item listed below (thoughts?):
> >
> > Benq AWL-700 wireless router 802.11b
> > in perfect condition, as new still in box with manuals and cd
> > WITH benq 11Mbps wireless lan pc card(AWL100) both work
> > together great.
> >
> > I can get these now for NZ$230
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Jason Greenwood
>
> There is a list of wireless cards and their drivers here
> http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html
>
> I know from experience that Mandrake works with anything
> Orinoco based works 'out of the box'.
>
> The Benq AWL100 uses the Prism 2.5 chip set which uses the
> wlan-ng driver which I know was not included in Mandrake 9.0 but
> I was able to get it working by compiling it.
>
> I do not know about Mandrake 9.1
>
> HTH
>
> derek
Derek, I'd reckon you know. I read lately that wireless at best
only delivers about 80% of the connection speed. An that the
further you get from the source, the percentage drops further. At
10 meters it's all but gone. True?
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