Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread Dag Wieers
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, S.Tindall wrote: > As a side note, Tomato Firmware allows you to adjust transmitter power > up to 6 times the normal level and that has let me go through some very > think brick walls to pick up remote network cameras. We have to see what the result of that is on any offsprin

Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread S.Tindall
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 17:06 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Julian Thomas wrote: > > > > Why not look at a small access point that plugs into the RJ45 and uses USB > > for power? DLink DWL-G730AP or > > other equivalent. > > If it really is an AP, it won't do the job, as an AP cannot be a cli

Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Julian Thomas wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:31:33 -0400 fred smith wrote: > >> >>> David McGuffey wrote: >>> Have decided to give up on the embedded Broadcom 4312 wireless device in my son's Dell laptop. I get WEP open authentication to work, but nothing else. I wa

Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread Julian Thomas
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:31:33 -0400 fred smith wrote: > > >> David McGuffey wrote: >> > Have decided to give up on the embedded Broadcom 4312 wireless device in >> > my son's Dell laptop. I get WEP open authentication to work, but >> > nothing else. I was about to dump the bcm43xx kernel module an