Re: [e-smith-devinfo] USB and 802.11B on SME

2002-08-01 Thread Mike Kelly
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Peter Samuel wrote: > We've (the Mitel NSSG operations team[1]) not had a great deal of success > in getting a Linksys USB wireless transmitter working under kernel 2.2 > or 2.4. We haven't looked at the drivers for a few months so things may > well have changed. Specifically

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] USB and 802.11B on SME

2002-08-01 Thread Peter Samuel
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Charlie Brady wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Brad Hards wrote: > > > USB on 2.2 is pretty marginal at best. I don't know if RH 2.2 kernels > > have much backport included. > > They do, especially for keyboards and mice, but also video and storage > devices, but I don't kno

[e-smith-devinfo] USB and 802.11B on SME

2002-08-01 Thread Kevin Flanagan
Hi all, I'm getting ready to do put up a wireless link in the house for my laptop, and think that my Linux box would make a good Access Point, I read about turning a BSD machine into an AP. It seems to me that you would have a lot more control, be able to use Iptables to secure things a bit bett

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] USB and 802.11B on SME

2002-08-01 Thread Brad Hards
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 22:19, Charlie Brady wrote: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Brad Hards wrote: > > USB on 2.2 is pretty marginal at best. I don't know if RH 2.2 kernels > > have much backport included. > > They do, especially for keyboards and mice, but also video and storage > devices, but I don't know i

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] USB and 802.11B on SME

2002-08-01 Thread Charlie Brady
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Brad Hards wrote: > USB on 2.2 is pretty marginal at best. I don't know if RH 2.2 kernels > have much backport included. They do, especially for keyboards and mice, but also video and storage devices, but I don't know if that extends to networking devices. -- Charlie Brady

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] USB and 802.11B on SME

2002-08-01 Thread Brad Hards
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 21:10, Kevin Flanagan wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm getting ready to do put up a wireless link in the house for my > laptop, and think that my Linux box would make a good Access Point, I > read about turning a BSD machine into an AP. It seems to me that you > would have a lot more c