Tommy Kelly wrote:
>Bought the WiFi box I mentioned - 3Com HomeConnect
>and a NetGear 802.11b PCMCIA card. About ?450
>all in.
>
>The HomeConnect sits between my cable modem and
>my PCs. It runs DHCP and a lightweight firewall.
>Two PCs are wire connected, one running Win98
>and the other Mandrake. The Mandrake machine
>used to be my router/NAT-thing. It didn't
>even notice the change and is still happily
>getting to the outside world. The Win PC is
>fine too.
>
>On the wireless side, I've only got Win2K on my
> laptop at the moment, so I haven't yet had to
>do the difficult bit - getting
>the PCMCIA WiFi card to work nder Linux.
>
>BUT, overall, it's very cool. I can sit anywhere
>in the house, or outside within about ten yards, and
>still be on the net.
>
>Sad really :-)
>
>t
>
>
Welcome to the world of wireless computing, from my somewhat small but
interesting experiences of wireless lans and linux, things are pretty
simple, both orinoco, wavelan, 3com and an unbranded card from VIP
worked right away under mandrake 8 and theoretically anything with
2.4.x. If your distro doesnt do it for you, its simply a case of
inserting card, insterting pcmcia modules if needed and modprobe device
module, ifconfig wvlan0 inet ip up and you have wireless lan on your
linux boxen.
Its all relative, 20 or So geeks, in tents at a campsite with a
fridge, with a wireless connection over 2km, down a valley to a hall
with an isdn/satalite connection now thats sad :D
Good luck when you set it up with linux. Have you been out scanning
yet? :D
David
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Robinson
>>Sent: 27 August 2001 17:15
>>To: Tommy Kelly
>>Subject: Re[2]: [scottish] WiFi
>>
>>
>>Hello Tommy,
>>
>>Monday, 27 August 2001, you wrote:
>>
>>TK> Mark,
>>
>>TK> That's the higher-end box - no router functions, plugs into
>>an existing
>>TK> hub. Yes?
>>
>>Yeah.
>>
>>TK> The one I'm considering is lower in price, and has a built-in router
>>TK> and firewall. I think it does DHCP too.
>>
>>Ah, sorry. I know what you mean now...
>>Haven't used it, but everything else 3Com always behaves very well
>>IMHO :-) I assume it'll use the same cards in the pc's though.
>>I'll be interested to know how you get on with it...
>>
>> Mark
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